Because I enjoy conversations with my clients my therapy style is directive which means I’m actively participating in your healing journey. It also means that it is a we journey; working together as a team toward your self-understanding and practical solutions to what concerns you most. In each session, I will offer productive ways to think and to take effective action. I use storytelling to illustrate effective life concepts and principles. I also use informative dialogue to help you use what you are learning in therapy. I wait and listen so I can adapt to what is happening in each session rather than staying with a specific approach. Clients have told me that they appreciate my down-to-earth practical approach because after every session they walk away with the skills needed to apply the concepts and principles we’ve discussed. They have also said that they hear things that are sometimes uncomfortable and very much needed but always delivered with a warmth, understanding, and compassion that helps them to listen to difficult truth.

My focus of specialties has grown over the years that highlights my work with issues of life transitions including care giving and grief and loss, concerns of seniors and retirement and health, women’s issues, bilingual/bicultural Hispanics and Spanish speaking, and the Christian life journey. I grew up in a Hispanic bilingual English-Spanish home that had its riches and challenges of living in a bicultural environment. I also was surrounded by the influences of the Christian faith so it was a natural extension of observing how people interacted with the God they said they followed and how they lived with the realities of life. My observations were filled with people struggling with the contradictions of the living of life and the living of faith.

What I discovered was that the calling of faith was a calling above the human experience; therefore, the overall goal of Christian therapy is to help the client discover the practical application of Biblical thought and teaching. It’s making faith real in the everyday struggles of life. Ultimately, helping the Christian client align their faith with the challenges this life brings. It is an integration of faith and the issues of relationships, emotions, and mental health. The therapeutic applications I use are cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), rational emotive behavioral therapy (REBT), Reality Therapy, Psychodynamic, Solution Focus, Eclectic Approach, and Christian therapy as requested.

I believe that we are not hostages to our past or present traumas and that overcoming the trauma comes from living life in truth, in responsibility, in gratitude, and in serving. My role as a therapist is to help clients align themselves with life’s truth and respond effectively to it and its challenges. I have called my private practice “Wings of Courage…Journey of Truth” because a healthy and effective life is a courageous and truthful one. I bring a straightforward, honest approach to life issues to encourage a strength and a courage that clients can integrate into their lives. Essentially, that is what therapy is: A Journey of Truth.