My Approach to Helping
Selecting the right therapist who has the clinical training, experience and expertise to help you can be confusing. With more than fifteen (15) years of international experience as a psychotherapist, I have successfully helped numerous clients who suffered from a wide spectrum of "unhealthy" emotions, such as anxiety, depression, anger, grief, trauma, and chronic stress. I also specialize in multicultural issues. My goal is to help you to reach your full potential by overcoming symptoms that are inhibiting you from reaching it. I see the psychotherapy as an ongoing and collaborative process between two of us. My mission is to teach you useful skills that will help you to deal with not only the current problems but also with future problems you might encounter.
I utilize up-to-date approaches tied to cognitive-behavioral, motivational interviewing, and mindfulness principles including a wide variety of relaxation and stress management techniques. These approaches are largely evidence-based which means that they are scientifically proven. I strive to tailor these approaches and their techniques to your unique needs.
I am an active therapist who asks questions and offers consistent feedback to guide the session's focus. I am also a directive and goal oriented therapist who would help you to clarify and to achieve your goals. It is my belief that only the counseling process in which all parties are actively involved leads to a transformational long-lasting lifestyle change.
More Info About My Practice
Chicago Center for Wellbeing offers in-person and online therapy, counseling, coaching, and fitness services. We help our clients to manage stress, to overcome anxiety and depression by teaching them how to change their perception, decrease intensity of their emotions, and change their dysfunctional behaviors (such as avoidance, procrastination, etc). We help our clients to be fully functional and to take control over their lives. In-person therapy services are offered in our downtown Chicago location as well as online therapy for individuals who don’t live in Chicago, IL. We don’t only help our clients to manage their intensive emotions and to change their dysfunctional behaviors, we help our clients to live healthy and active lives and thus we offer in-person and online holistic fitness classes that are available to clients from all around the world. Unique meditation practices and different exercises that promote body-mind connection are offered in our center in order to help our clients to gain a deeper insight of their lives, to find a purpose and meaning in their lives, and to reach a state of calmness as well as greater self-awareness. Our services are person centered and culturally sensitive which means that we make sure to approach each client individually. We tailor our approach to the clients’ specific needs because we believe that this is the best way to help our clients.
Chicago Center for Wellbeing offers culturally sensitive services and immigration evaluation.
Specific Issue(s) I'm Skilled at Helping With
I am a psychotherapist and Wellbeing Coach with extensive international clinical experience. I hold my masters degree in Counseling and Organizational Psychology. Also, I have trainings in Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). Additionally, I am trained in the Anthropedia Wellbeing Coaching Method which is an integrative and holistic approach to wellbeing. I have over 15 years of international clinical experience. I have been also doing clinical research in the fields of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences for over 10 years internationally. This research experience has helped me to ground my clinical work on the evidence based practices and therapy approaches.
My vision is to grow the Chicago Center for Wellbeing into a leading wellbeing, training ,and research center in Chicago Land Area. We would like to bring in to our center professionals from different disciplines who would offer various unique and evidence based holistic services focused on the body, mind, and spirit. Beside this, I would like to utilize my expertise, skills and experience to train other professionals and to contribute to the scientific knowledge in the field of wellbeing.
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