Reality Therapy in Covina, CA

Do you find yourself having a difficult time coping with anxiety, depression, and trauma? Do you have a hard time communicating and setting boundaries with others? Life is full of obstacles and hardships that may be difficult to overcome without the right tools, resources, and, guidance leading to the manifestation of these symptoms. I specialize in working with adults, couples, and adolescents using a Psychodynamic approach to explore unconscious thoughts and behaviors. In doing this, we are able to collaboratively recognize old ineffective patterns and process unresolved feelings and trauma.

Our life experiences can lead us to question our identity and purpose in the world we live in. This can lead us to anxiety, depression, and trauma. Do you want to improve how you face challenges, function in your relationships, and face overwhelming feelings? I place heavy importance on addressing trauma. Trauma disintegrates the parts that make up your whole self, which can leave aspects of who you are hidden from your awareness. Left unaddressed, anxiety and depression can worsen, which can rob you of the necessary connection that all human beings need to thrive. I aim to help you process unresolved trauma.

I view therapy as a collaborative process that permits trust and growth to occur. I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, with a long history of working with clients from diverse populations and cultural backgrounds. I work towards recognizing your existing skills and strengths, and personalizing your treatment based on your needs and goals. I pull from a variety of therapeutic techniques and theories to treat a wide range of mental health concerns, including anxiety, depression, grief and loss, trauma, LGBTQ issues, bipolar disorder, relationship difficulties, and other life transitions.

Life can be very difficult and is often accompanied by many challenges. The feelings accompanied by these challenging times can be felt very intensely often hindering us in other aspects of our life. By exploring the challenges together, I want to help you find ways to tackle them and guide you towards a path of enjoying life and experiencing joy. I want to help you explore difficult times and find meaning in life, to empower you, and feel a sense of control that you might be yearning for. I want to help you move in a positive direction to feel worthy of the life you deserve.

Are you experiencing challenges dealing with anxiety, depression, relationship/family issues, and trauma/PTSD? Due to these symptoms, we can be in too much emotional pain and feel too stuck to reframe our perceptions or to find solutions to our problems. Childhood or recent trauma can cause emotional distress that can be difficult to process. I am here to support you in working through unresolved trauma and guide you toward healing. Therefore, you can feel empowered, rejuvenated, and enthusiastic about life again.

My therapeutic approach mainly focuses on helping my clients identify their strengths to help alleviate anxiety, depression, and trauma. I am a firm believer that our childhood experiences contribute to our beliefs, behavioral patterns, and selecting a romantic partner. Therapy is a process! To allow ourselves to be intimate and vulnerable with someone about our experiences and trauma can be daunting. As a therapist, it is my goal to help validate, create a safe environment and help understand aspects of lived experiences.

Throughout our lives, we all have experienced feelings of depression, anxiety, and anger. These emotions leave you feeling insecure, shameful, lonely, unworthy and stuck in unhealthy patterns of behavior. Trauma can have negative emotional and physical effects and can lead to family/relationship issues. I specialize in solution-focused brief therapy, motivational interviewing, mindfulness and CBT. These approaches allow me to work with the client to decrease symptoms of anxiety and depression and other health/behavioral issues.

Life can feel impossible to avoid struggling and we often don't feel we have the skills to cope successfully through. Unfortunately, sometimes we don't have all the resources we need for a given situation. Parts of us take on desperate roles trying to help us to survive. This might look like anxiety, depression, PTSD, addiction, and relationship/family issues. I aim to help you process unresolved issues and feelings and find solutions.

I am a bilingual, Licensed Clinical Therapist. My primary focus is to help promote change for personal growth, confidence and a healthy self-esteem. My goal is not only to get you through this difficult time in your life, but to help you develop ways to be better able to handle things in the future. I provide therapeutic counseling services to children, adolescents and adults as a Marriage, Family and Child Counselor. My education is in Counseling Psychology and Behavioral Sciences. My experiences and training have been very helpful in educating others, by sharing knowledge and promoting the understanding of human behavior.

My approach to counseling takes into account that each client is unique and views their problems and solutions from their unique perspective. Also, each client possesses unique talents and gifts that should be recognized and highlighted to strengthen their coping skills. I incorporate PCT, CBT, DBT, and Solution Focused Therapy in my practice. I find these therapies beneficial with brief therapy and to help move clients through the forest of life’s issues. I appreciate clients that identify their need for help and are willing to make life changes, and I represent the values of restoring hope, inspiring growth, and empowerment.

Hello, my name is April Garcia and I’m a licensed marriage and family therapist. My approach is to support you with personal empowerment so you’re in control of your life with the use of cognitive affective behavioral therapy and with use of the community resiliency model. My approach will consist of supporting you with managing your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. The types of clients I typically work with are those who are willing to take a consistent and active desire to work diligently and clients who are willing to attend therapy consistently and on time.

I help women who are stressed, depressed, anxious or overwhelmed find ways to cope and feel better through individual clinical therapy and/or faith based counseling. Women as nurturers give a lot of themselves, and at times feel out of balance with the demands of life they carry. As a middle aged Christian therapist woman myself, I can relate and connect with these kinds of women’s issues. Sessions with me look like two women working together to get through the issues that bring you in. I use clinical approaches and/or faith based approaches to help you gain understanding and reach your breakthrough

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Navigating life's challenges is never easy, but reaching out for help is a brave first step to living a more genuine and fulfilling life. I have expertise in working with individuals struggling with childhood trauma and trauma-related symptoms such as grief, anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, and relational conflict. I believe every client is unique and deserves to be listened to and understood in an empathetic way. I am passionate about creating a safe, kind, collaborative and judgment-free space where clients can attain new insights, experience new feelings, and find a renewed sense of physical and mental well-being.