Therapy Specializations

Online and In Office Counseling with individuals, couples and families. Special focus on: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transsexual Life Changes and Relationships Issues, LGBT community issues, Impact of Technology on Life

 

Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transsexual Relationships Issues

  • Coming out process
  • Being comfortable with your sexuality
  • Creating a gay-friendly social support system
  • Deciding to get married or start a family
  • Disenfranchised grief or loss (e.g. Your partner is not recognized by your family or friends.)
  • Relationship counseling 

Life Changes and Relationship Issues

  • Hispanic culture, rituals and relationship themes
  • Relationship Growth (Defining your relationship, coping with relationship stagnation)
  • Emotional Infidelity, Surviving affairs
  • Communication (e.g. learning how to communicate effectively and set realistic boundaries)
  • Defining relationship roles and expectations
  • Pre-marital counseling, marriage counseling, fertility challenges
  • Postpartum Depression
  • Loss (e.g. change in identity after retirement or divorce, career change, traumatic or violence experience, living with medical illness, or relocation.)

Impact of Technology and Life

  •           Social Networking (Facebook, Twitter. Etc.)
  •           Gaming (World of Warcraft, Farmville,Etc. )
  •           Cyberbullying