About Tita

I am an Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker.  I’ve been working with people for 28 years using multiple modalities (individual, group, family, multi-family, couples)  and multiple techniques (psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, 12-Step,  EMDR, Prepare for Surgery,  Heal Faster,  DBT, and EFT Tapping).  

My clients’ problems in living vary from school stress, problems communicating with family, to unresolved grief and trauma recovery.  They come because they feel emotional, mental, or physical pain and their pain is getting in the way of their everyday life.

I believe in supporting, but also helping people move to another level of comfort in their daily lives.  The healing is based on getting in touch with emotions and thoughts, processing and managing those strong emotions and thoughts, in order to learn from them and make healthy decisions, and taking that new ease into daily life. 

I enjoy helping people work through their issues - to be able to express them in a safe setting and to tolerate the emotions and thoughts enough to work through them, so these emotions and thoughts no longer haunt them, but inform them. 

I have been inspired by clients’ dedication to change, investment in treatment, and results they get.  The results are decrease in anxiety, increased confidence, improved relationships with family and friends and feeling they are no longer held captive by their strong emotions, thoughts, memories or past experiences. Results include relaxation, joy, motivation, confidence - a whole range of positive feelings and the ability to maneuver through difficult emotions and thoughts.

There are quick changes that involve a dynamic change in in perspective that offer immediate relief and increased relaxation.  There are slow changes that involve addressing core issues and beliefs that offer relief from old patterns and putting the new perspectives and skills into action.

I utilize a combination of traditional talk therapy and modalities that bypass the slower processing abilities of talk therapy and offer quicker processing of both current stress and limiting beliefs related to core issues.

I can teach clients techniques they can use on their own at home, at work, and in everyday life to empower their own healing process. I find this deeply gratifying.

Client comment: 

“THANK YOU!!!!.  The tapping that you taught me has been soooo helpful!  I am doing it every day now and it really lifts me out of my low moments..and seems to be improving my immune system. I do it before I get out of bed! Tita, you talked me into it and I am so glad you did!  Muchas gracias!”