Hi! I am a Mental Health Counselor on a limited permit (MHC-LP) with a Master of Science in Education.
Mental Health Counselor in Brooklyn, NY
Supervised by Crystal Angerville
I work with adults and couples with various challenges such as: addiction recovery, depression, anxiety, grief, and trauma. I prioritize creating a safe environment, where clients are encouraged to express themselves freely; and in a practical way.
I utilize Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR), Psychodynamic Therapy and Brief Solution Focused Th
Processing your experience can be illuminating for a client who is struggling in an abusive relationship. Oftentimes, people are shocked at how closely the cycle mirrors their own experience. Treatment gives you the time and space to feel supported while determining next steps as well as reflecting on where you have been emotionally. Developing coping mechanisms to gain a better understanding of self.
When you experience a life changing event, it can be extremely difficult to cope. I provide interventions that emphasize education about the illness that are often shown to improve outcomes over treatment. You can increase the ability to verbalize and experience feelings connected with the loss and develop questions about the loss and work to obtain answers for each.
Anxiety is extremely overwhelming, therapy can help to identify specific targets: hopelessness, helplessness, indecision, self-criticism, rumination. In therapy we also identify and reduce dysfunctional automatic thoughts and use specific cognitive techniques to help patient challenge negative automatic thoughts and identify and challenge underlying maladaptive assumptions that contribute to anxious symptoms. EMDR is also used to reduce specific distressing events or phobias.
I utilize various interventions including identifying specific targets: hopelessness, helplessness, indecision, self-criticism, rumination, lack of energy, lack of pleasure, record dysfunctional automatic thoughts, use specific cognitive techniques to help patient challenge negative automatic thoughts and identify and challenge underlying maladaptive assumptions
EMDR is an eight-phase treatment method to address symptoms of Anxiety, PTSD, Specific Phobias, Level of urge regarding substance abuse. The 8-phase treatment includes: History taking, client preparation, assessment, desensitization, installation, body scan, closure and reevaluation of treatment effect are the eight phases of this treatment. The client is also given and develop grounding skills to assist in processing distressing events.
The goal for patients is to try to increase clients’ awareness. Clients are expected to do their own seeing, feeling, sensing, & interpreting. This teaches people to become aware of significant sensations within themselves and their environment so that they respond fully and reasonably to situations. The empty chair techniques are utilized to address challenging relationships as well as grief.
