When you want to make sense of your life story. When you want to remove blockages that are not allowing you to live an authentic life. When you are tired of feeling misunderstood. When you know life can be better. When you want to commit to yourself for the first time or maybe when you want to commit to yourself again. When your needs start to come first. When you want to find your own voice.

Therapy is a dialogue, an encounter, a supportive space in which your story an situation will take precedent in the discussion. I will serve as a catalyst while you commit to your own healing process. The dialogue will help you reconnect with your inner world, understand what is happening in your life as well as identifying obstacles and feelings difficult to manage. This therapeutic process will help you make decisions, modify thoughts, find answer to challenging questions, heal painful experiences and develop self confidence.

During a therapy session, you will explain how you see the problem and your life circumstances which will provide me with an understanding of what is happening in your life. As the therapy continues, I will ask questions to understand you and your life circumstances. I will highlight aspects that might be a roadblock for you as well as reflecting with you about the different ways to address them by identifying relational aspects, thoughts, and feelings and how they have serve you or not in your healing process. I will expect you to come prepared to each session and engage in active reflection about your emotional experience as I understand psychotherapy as a a collaborative effort between therapist and client.

Generally, someone comes to therapy because they would like something in their lives to change or because the common coping mechanisms they have used to handle their problems have not worked. They have acknowledged they need some support and look for someone who can listen and help them understand themselves. However, I think that everyone can benefit from therapy at some point in their lives.

Therapy offers opportunities to confront traumatic experiences and explore emotions in order to avoid your past trauma continues to be an obstacle in life and relationships. If you have suffered trauma, you may feel isolated since people might not understand the impact this experience has in your life. Therapy helps reduce this feeling of isolation through the relationship with a therapist. One of the main tasks in therapy is to help you re-establish a sense of trust on themselves and others. This will help you relate to the world with more confidence since, in many instances, the world has become and unsafe place for those who have suffered trauma.

You might start feeling better gradually and you might see either changes on your mood, behavior and/or in your capacity to self reflect about your own life independently. There will be days you might not feel well after a session but that does not mean changes are not happening. This means you are working hard through difficult aspects of your life. On the other hand, you should feel respected, heard and not taken advantage of in any way for the benefit of the therapist. You should also feel pleased with the therapist you choose since you will need to open up to difficult aspects of your life and this is easier when done with someone you like.

The answer to this question depends on your interests, preferences and objectives when looking for therapy. Get familiar with my background, my areas of expertise and if these are relevant to the problems you are facing. Get familiar with my philosophy and my approach to the problem. Even if the issue you are dealing with is not listed in my website, we can discuss if this is an area we can work together. You can interview me on the phone before initiating a professional relationship with me.

This depends on many factors such as the issues that you want to work in therapy. You can do therapy for short or long term. Some people go to therapy for a particular reason and once this is resolved, they discontinue therapy; others continue therapy because they want to work on other aspects of their lives they have discovered through the therapeutic process.

Every therapist has a different approach and preference in terms of how to work with clients. However, if you want to do in depth psychotherapeutic work weekly or twice a week sessions are necessary. This is even more important if the issues you want to work on in psychotherapy are related to difficulties getting close to others such as avoidance, unsuccessful dating or never finding the right match  and symptomatic behaviors that keep you away from others. It is difficult enough to build trust and share the most intimate parts of yourself to someone you barely know. Therefore, the frequency will allow for you to develop the necessary closeness, attachment, trust,  and seeing long lasting relationship changes in your life.

It is important to come prepared to session by thinking about the current issue that is bringing you to therapy and why that is an issue of concern at this point in your life. You can also think about a few questions you want to find answers to regarding your situation or questions you want to ask the therapist about their approach and style or their professional opinion about a specific issue.

Your therapist will send you an automatic email with a link where you will see your consent and demographic forms that need to be completed. You need to fill out and add your signatures timely before your first appointment. You should also expect to receive a video session link. The software may ask you to download their app so try to connect to the session15 minutes prior to your first time appointment in case you run into any technical difficulty. If you do not receive your consent forms or video link 24 hours before your appointment, you should email the therapist as soon as you can so you get this information.