Through Paola’s Therapeutic Lens
As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a 200hr Yoga Alliance-Certified Instructor, I implement a holistic therapeutic approach and integrate varying therapeutic modalities in an effort to tailor interventions that are in alignment with the needs of each individual. Partaking in psychotherapy means showing up as you are and shedding all the personas you present in your social life. I draw from my diverse experience to create an authentic, warm and safe environment where you can give yourself permission to be vulnerable and show up as you are.
Common concerns and challenges that prompt clients to engage in therapy include:
Adult Sexual Abuse
Childhood Sexual Abuse
Generalized Anxiety/ Depression
LGBTQIA+/ Gender Identity
Life Transitions
Racial Identity
Trauma & PTSD
Trauma-Informed Care
Trauma-Informed Care, is a framework which aims to understand the client’s physical, psychological and emotional safety and needs in effort to promote client’s sense of self-determination and empowerment. It takes into consideration a person trauma history to prevent re-traumatization and ensure a collaborative approach between client and provider.
Modalities
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a psychotherapy that enables people to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that are the result of disturbing life experiences such as PTSD, anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, panic disorder, and phobias. EMDR incorporate eye movement and/or other bilateral stimulation to process traumatic experiences and memories that are problematic to generating adaptive information that reduce disturbing and debilitating body sensations, beliefs and emotions.
Group Therapy for Sexual Assault Survivors
Group therapy for survivors of sexual assault, is a form of psychotherapy that involves either one or two therapists and at least three participants. The focus of the group work is to provide a safe and supportive space for participants to come together, reflect and process their shared experiences.
LGBTQIA+ Affirmative Therapy
LGBTQIA+ Affirmative Therapy, is a type of therapy that embraces, advocates and validates the perspective and needs of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual and Gender Non-Conforming individuals. This approach takes into consideration the negative influence and dehumanizing manner that homophobia, transphobia and heterosexism play on the lives of clients. Clients’ gender identity or sexual orientation is not perceived as the root cause of the problems in other words clients are neither innately defective or deviant.
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy is a type of therapy that assists people in understanding and identifying patterns in their emotions, conscious thoughts and unconscious motives and needs. This done in effort to gain insight into the roots causes of their distress. Exploring such patterns facilitates understanding to the manner in which past experience influence the psychological development and functioning of the adult. This modality is also known as “talk therapy”.
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