Emotionally Focused Therapists in 92517
Mavernie V Mitchell
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSW, LCSW
Verified Verified
Riverside, CA 92517
My greatest passion is performing my duties as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. I feel honored working with clients who seek mental health treatment. I serve adults, adolescents, and children, with proficiency in various treatment modalities including, but not limited to, individual, group, family and child therapy. I utilize active listening, validation, empathy, and unconditional positive regard. My work is focussed, goal directed, purpose and problem centered, offering support, warmth, caring, and deep regard for clients' rights and potentials for change. I accept Medicare and MediCal/IEHP insurance. Additionally, I accept private insurance - Blue Cross, CHIPA, Value Options, MHN, Aetna, TriCAre, etc.
My greatest passion is performing my duties as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. I feel honored working with clients who seek mental health treatment. I serve adults, adolescents, and children, with proficiency in various treatment modalities including, but not limited to, individual, group, family and child therapy. I utilize active listening, validation, empathy, and unconditional positive regard. My work is focussed, goal directed, purpose and problem centered, offering support, warmth, caring, and deep regard for clients' rights and potentials for change. I accept Medicare and MediCal/IEHP insurance. Additionally, I accept private insurance - Blue Cross, CHIPA, Value Options, MHN, Aetna, TriCAre, etc.
Jessica Hernandez
Associate Marriage & Family Therapist, AMFT, APCC
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Riverside, CA 92517 (Online Only)
When was the last time you really thought about your life, your story? If you have lost yourself in the busyness of life and are exhausted from playing a role, If you lost sense of who you really are or are not enjoying life and relationships the way you want to, I can help. I am a Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (AMFT 118127) and Registered Associate Professional Clinical Counselor (APCC 7571) and I provide counseling to teens, adults, families, and couples. My approach to counseling is a humanistic one that helps you gain awareness of patterns that are no longer suiting you.
When was the last time you really thought about your life, your story? If you have lost yourself in the busyness of life and are exhausted from playing a role, If you lost sense of who you really are or are not enjoying life and relationships the way you want to, I can help. I am a Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (AMFT 118127) and Registered Associate Professional Clinical Counselor (APCC 7571) and I provide counseling to teens, adults, families, and couples. My approach to counseling is a humanistic one that helps you gain awareness of patterns that are no longer suiting you.
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Emotionally Focused Therapists
Who is emotionally focused therapy for?
Emotionally focused therapy (EFT) is for couples who are emotionally distressed, stuck in an unsatisfying relationship pattern or feeling deeply alienated. They may even believe the relationship is beyond repair. Very often, the partners display intense anger, fear, grief, loss of trust, or a sense of betrayal in the relationship. In addition, EFT is helpful to couples and individuals who have difficulty expressing emotions and those who have trouble regulating emotions.
Why do people need emotionally focused therapy?
People need emotionally focused therapy because the need for others is built into the brain, but the pressures of daily life can erode feelings of love, and couples often do not have the skills to find their way back to the comfort of each other. Instead, they may be stuck in repetitive patterns of anger, fear, grief, loss of trust, or a sense of betrayal. Emotionally focused therapy regards such strong negative feelings as expressions of protest over the loss of connection and turns them into pathways of reconnection.
What happens in emotionally focused therapy?
Over the course of eight to 20 weekly sessions, couples de-escalate their negative emotional reactivity to one another so that they can listen to each other and be responsive to each other’s needs. Then the deep emotional and physical bond is restored, giving partners a sense of comfort and security, which they can use to solve whatever problems come their way. The therapist plays an active role, helping partners understand how anger and withdrawal are actually misguided cries for connection.
What problems does emotionally focused therapy treat?
EFT is designed to help couples stuck in dysfunctional relationship patterns regain closeness and rebuild their relationship. Typically, such couples experience considerable distress, with partners feeling alienated and distrustful of one another, not certain their relationship can survive. EFT is also helpful to individuals experiencing attachment-related fears of loss; it helps them learn to use their fears as a way of eliciting the closeness they desire.