My former principal once described me as a “natural born” teacher. But I like to think of myself as a “natural born” student. Over the years, I have grown to love the process of examining underlying causalities that often inflict an individual’s mental health and learning how to apply therapeutic principles to assist with healing deficits and improving functioning. My expertise lies in the areas of working with individuals with severe and persistent mental illness (may be transitioning from acute psychiatric hospitalization), substance abuse, Depression, Anxiety, PTSD, and at-risk youth.The process of therapy is to help patients identify problems and the thoughts that cause them, and then to help them change their thoughts through thought-challenging and behavioral experiments. I understand that Cognitive Restructuring varies therefore it necessitates the incorporation of various strategies during the service delivery process.I believe that recovery from mental illness or symptom management and reduction is likely if patients receive evidence-based treatments. CBT involves psychoeducation, which is a here-and-now, goal-focused, collaborative, evidence-based theory and therapy. Therapy is time-limited, structured and based on a skills-based learning approach.
