I provide services for:
• Individual Therapy
• Couples & Relationships
• Family Therapy
• Play therapy & Art Therapy for children & adults
• Group Therapy: I offer ongoing 12 session series on domestic violence. I also offer long-term psychodynamically oriented groups for men and women. Please contact me to begin the intake process.
Psychotherapy Services
EMDR Consultation/Supervision
Clinical Evaluation Services
Psychotherapy Services:
I believe in the uniqueness of each individual and your ability to activate your own potential for healing.
My goal is to serve you in the way that is most appropriate for your particular situation.
In the past two decades, I have amassed a wealth of experience in providing therapeutic services for individuals, couples and families. My primary therapeutic approach is Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR), an evidence-based approach to treating trauma.
I am able to provide this service in English and in Spanish, and to customize and optimize it for your treatment.
My practice is founded on a multicultural approach that focuses on individual and community empowerment. By attending to issues of race, gender, historical trauma & migration, we acknowledge the social realities that influence us.
In addition, a multi-generational exploration brings our family, history and lineage into focus. Using EMDR, psychodynamic therapy, as well as the frameworks of object relations, family systems and Structural theory, the work we do together will be supported and supportive.
I work with adult individuals, couples, families and also provide group therapy.
EMDR Consultation/Supervision
As a EMDRIA Approved Consultant, and a CAMFT Certified Supervisor, I would consider it an honor to come alongside you in your growth as an EMDR therapist/ or CIT. I provide bilingual and bicultural consultation/supervision for therapists wanting to become EMDR Certified/EMDR Consultants, or wish to have support while they learn how to more effectively integrate the skill of EMDR with their clients.
I have used EMDR with hundreds of clients.
I have used EMDR effectively with traumatized individuals (both acute and complex). I am passionate about using EMDR and how profoundly healing can happen with my clients. I have more then 20 years as a therapist and used EMDR since 2011.
My goal of providing consultation is to meet the consultation requirement for EMDRIA Certification in EMDR. If you’ve completed Part 1 and Part 2 of your EMDR training for EMDRIA Approved Trainer and you are moving towards EMDR certification, EMDRIA requires that at least ten of the hours must be individual consultation or earned through ten hours of individual case presentation within the group consultation setting.
My group and individual consultation will provide the following:
Help you to use EMDR effectively in your specific therapeutic style.
Help you with vocabulary and culture frameworks with clients that are Spanish speakers.
Help you to integrate your current therapy modality with the EMDR process.
Clinical Evaluation Services
I am able to offer affordable evaluation services for
U-Visa / VAWA, Asylum / Hardship:
Specialized in the assessment of factors such as:
• Trauma
• Economic and Financial issues
• Career and Education Disruption
• Health and Medical Concerns
• Conditions in the country of origin
• Sociocultural Adjustments
• Family Relocation or Separation. Family ties here and abroad
• Immigration History
• Community ties and contributions
Typical services include assessment and report-writing.
If I am needed to testify or to make court appearances, there are additional charges including travel and other costs associated with these appearances.
If you have been referred by your attorney for an evaluation, please contact me via telephone to set up an initial appointment.
I provide bilingual, bicultural competence to best serve your needs.
I conduct assessment in Spanish and English. The clinical inventories that I use are standardized on Latino population. In my reports, my role is not of an advocate, but rather I use an objective presentation of professionally documented evidence to corroborate consistency with the survivor's report in a timely manner.
One of my goals with the report is to empower the survivor to testify in court and to cope with the anxiety and stress of the court process. They often fear losing emotional control on the witness stand.
Attorneys whom I have worked with can be available as a reference for my work.
Do not hesitate to request samples of evaluations and/or a list of attorneys who can serve as a reference for my evaluation services.