Personal Philosophy
I’m okay, you’re okay. It’s okay. If I’m NOT okay, you’re NOT okay,and It’s NOT okay, THAT IS OKAY. because we can problem solve and cope more productively as we proceed with life.
The explicit goal of my practice is to help you discover how to be your own compassionate best friend and therapist.
My CBT psychotherapy, guided by Aaron T. Beck’s Generic Model of CT (2014), is built around a Biological/Neurological, Psychological, Sociological, and Contextual framework that is UNIQUE TO EACH INDIVIDUAL
You and I will commence the therapy journey by collaboratively exploring MAPCBT:
Motivation - Purpose and Values
Affect - Emotions as well as personality dimensions. Also, are emotions suppressed or embraced: Are they avoided or approached? Are the personality dimensions rigid and maladaptive to context and values or flexible and adaptive to context and values?
Physiological - Sensory and molar physiological reactions, symptom presentation profile, and being curious about sociological or cultural influences.
Cognitive -Adaptive and maladaptive Automatic Thoughts, Underlying Beliefs, and Emotional Schema. As well as flexibility and adaptiveness of focus, attention, memory, and other brain-based processes?
Behavioral Assessment- Behavioral patterns and habits: More erratic and impulsive or more persistent and value-based? What is the impact of reinforcement patterns?
Triggers - Internal (bio-physiological) and external (social and contextual).
In addition to those mentioned above, I am quite interested in your inter-personal connections, interests, aspirations, and life goals.