Chandra Estefan

Maybe you have been involved in unhealthy relationships, and you don’t trust your judgment anymore. Perhaps you struggle with feeling confident in your relationships, afraid that if you get too close, your partner just might leave. Perhaps you’ve tried your hardest to find a partner you can be happy with, only to find yourself repeating the same patterns. You really would like to begin and maintain a healthy relationship, if only you understood how to do so! Relationship counseling can help.

Perhaps you still feel traumatized or overwhelmed, your body frozen between fight or flight. Maybe you have made a great deal of progress in your life, but recent contact with a particular person has you reliving all the negative thoughts and feelings you experienced years ago. Perhaps you have been in therapy for years but can’t seem to overcome the feeling of, “I’m not wanted,” “I’m not good enough,” or “I'm broken.” You don't have to continue carrying the past. Trauma therapy can help.

Maybe your fear of disappointing others is making you so anxious that you feel you’re beginning to lose control of your life. Perhaps your overwhelming fear of failure is holding you back from pursuing your goals. Perhaps, more and more frequently, you are finding yourself paralyzed in the face of a challenge— so much so that you shrink into yourself, only to feel ashamed of your reaction. But you want to feel free and to become the best version of yourself! Self-esteem counseling can help.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is one of the most powerful approaches to healing emotional wounds. Having your eyes stimulated (by a technique designed just for this purpose) will help your brain to reprocess triggered physical sensations and negative feelings arising from past traumatic events, and to transform these feelings into healthier reactions. Don't worry, EMDR is effective virtually! I am EMDR-trained and have been using this approach for 6 years.

More than likely, you have heard of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)! It is one of the most well-known therapy approaches that help us examine the connection among our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It is a logic-based approach and offers great tools for managing the thoughts and feelings that keep your mind running in circles. CBT tools can also help you track and maintain progress between sessions. I have been using this approach for 6 years.

Narrative therapy is, as it sounds, an approach that gives attention to stories-- the narratives that we have created about our past, present, and future; as well as about our problems and strengths. Narrative therapy also addresses the stories that don't fit us, but have been passed down the generations or have been handed to us to carry. It is an approach that is strengths-based and can help us "turn the page" on how we face our difficulties. I have been using this approach for 10 years.