Virginia Perez

Anxiety is our brain's way of trying to keep us safe by alerting us of potential danger. Sometimes, it can be useful, and sometimes it significantly limits our functioning. The focus of our work will be to understand the cause of your anxiety, understand how it is useful, and confront/redirect it when it is not. My clients are relieved to find that they have control over their anxiety, not the other way around.

Depression limits our ability to perform, interact, and live fully. Often clients find themselves in a dark place with seemingly no light at the end of the tunnel. My treatment approach helps client to establish a secure baseline, discover hope, and begin to experience happiness again.

Self-esteem can impact us and limit us in profound ways including self-hatred to lack of confidence to shame and guilt. My approach to treating self-esteem issues reviews your personal history to low self esteem. Understanding when this issue began and the narrative that is keeping you there, and challenging the story you've been believing. I bring my clients to a place where they are able to view themselves from a neutral or positive perspective.

In cognitive behavioral therapy I assist the client to understand the interactions in their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. We work together to ensure a differentiation between thoughts and feelings and ways to identify, challenge, and reframe thinking traps such as: 'mind reading', 'negative filtering', and 'catastrophizing'. This framework is clinically effective and offer substantial results particularly for those suffering from anxiety and depression.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy assists clients in understanding their deeply held beliefs and their values. Clients are validated, provided psychoeducation, and encouraged to understand how to change their mindset/behaviors in a way that aligns with their foundational sense of self. This framework is clinically effective and offers substantial results particularly for those suffering from self-esteem and disorder eating issues.

Solution Focused Brief Therapy offers a focus on the goal of the client to guide and enhance positive change. The approach offers education, questioning, and guidance to allow the client to formulate solutions to their mindset/behaviors. The treatment offers focused and fast results for clients looking for immediate relief. This framework is clinically effective and offers substantial results particularly for those suffering from adjustment disorders.