Therapies we use.
ACT helps individuals increase psychological flexibility by accepting difficult emotions, clarifying personal values, and committing to meaningful actions. It is effective for anxiety, depression, and stress, promoting resilience.
Process & Practices: include mindfulness exercises, cognitive defusion (learning to step back from unhelpful thoughts), values clarification, and goal-setting for meaningful action. Clients learn to tolerate discomfort while pursuing a life aligned with their values, improving resilience and well-being.
ERP is a type of cognitive-behavioral therapy that helps individuals confront fears and reduce compulsive behaviors, commonly used for OCD and anxiety disorders. Through gradual exposure and prevention of avoidance, clients learn to manage distress and regain control over their lives.
Process & Practices: Clients gradually face feared situations or thoughts in a structured way while learning to resist compulsive behaviors. Typical practices include creating a fear hierarchy, repeated exposure exercises, and tracking progress to reduce avoidance. Over time, anxiety decreases as clients learn that feared outcomes are unlikely.
IFS is a trauma-informed therapy approach that helps individuals understand and harmonize the different “parts” of themselves. Everyone has multiple internal parts — for example, protective parts that try to shield us from pain, critical parts that judge us, or vulnerable parts that hold past trauma. IFS helps clients identify, understand, and heal these parts, promoting self-compassion and emotional balance.
Process and Practices:
Identifying Parts – The therapist guides the client to recognize different parts of themselves, often through guided reflection or dialogue.
Getting to Know Parts – Clients explore the thoughts, emotions, and roles of each part, understanding why it behaves the way it does.
Self-Leadership – Clients learn to access their core “Self,” which is calm, compassionate, and curious, to lead internal parts rather than be controlled by them.
Unburdening – Vulnerable or traumatized parts are gently helped to release painful emotions or beliefs they’ve been carrying.
Integration & Harmonization – Clients work toward internal cooperation, with all parts feeling seen, understood, and respected, leading to emotional healing and improved decision-making.
Immigration Evaluations
Hardship Evaluations are oftentimes recommended by an attorney to those that are in need of a psychological assessment to provide evidence of hardship that will ensue if a loved one was no longer allowed to remain in the United States. Psychological assessments allow judges to see you as the whole. Your history, your trauma, and the difficulty it would be if you’re loved one were to no longer be around or being prevented from returning to the United States. The service is offered to any individual who may need one and is not exclusive to just women.
Immigration Evaluation can be provided in Spanish and to anyone residing in New York, New Jersey, Florida, and Texas.
All evaluations are conducted over video conferencing, which allows people to meet with me even if they are far.
Immigration evaluations typically take about two hours to complete the interview and weeks to create a report to provide to your attorney. For these reasons, fees are provided over the phone.