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Adult Therapy

Whether you are working through stress, depression, anxiety, grief/loss, problems with your family, or trying to manage life better, therapy can help you find clarity.

In therapy we make goals together, help you hold yourself accountable to the goals you want to achieve. When stuck, we can offer expert advice to help gain clarity to move forward. Therapy can be a place to process and work through problems as well as receive practical interventions to manage life stressors.

Our Approach

At Perez Therapy we believe first in the relationship between the therapist and their client as being chief among the healing elements of therapy.  Most people will remember how a person made them feel more than the words that they said.  Our approach is humanistic, person-centered and practices cultural humility.  

 

Each therapist assesses the problems presented by each client or couple upon assessment.  Some clients want a solution-focused style while others are seeking insight and awareness therapy for personal growth. 

 

We focus on strengthening people’s experience in the following areas of life: 

  1. Resilience and healing from prior traumas

  2. Insight and awareness

  3. Relationships, connection and community

  4. Peace, health and happiness

  5. Ambition, growth and success

Areas of Expertise

  1. Stress Management

  2. Anxiety & Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

  3. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

  4. Depression & Bipolar Disorders

  5. Anger Management

  6. Assertiveness Training

  7. Stage of Life Problems

  8. Understanding yourself, making goals and completing them

What kind of therapy do you do?

Our therapists are trained in a variety of clinical approaches, but the following theories and therapies are commonplace in Perez Therapy.  We encourage you to have a conversation with your therapist about what type of therapy might work for you.

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Systems Theory. Given our practice as a multicultural practice rooted in cultural humility towards diverse minority communities, we approach therapy from a systems approach examining each of the arenas or systems that people from individual, micro and macro systems. We are interested in building individual insight but give importance to the connectedness to our family, peers, schools, communities and society at large.  

 

Solution-Focused Therapy. SF therapy focuses on addressing our basic assumptions of problems, imagining exceptions to the problem, focusing on healthy alternatives, and presupposing change.  This is a future-oriented and goal-directed approach that works for clients that want to focus on health rather than the problem, strengths instead of deficits and on skills, resources and coping abilities that may prevent future success. 

 

Narrative Therapy. How we narrate our lives is how we live our lives.  We help you create a narrative for you that helps you separate yourself from the problems you want to address and build a goal and a narrative that helps you meet this goal. How we can describe our lives can sometimes perpetuate how we perceive our lives and therefore we repeat the same patters.  We help you explore alternative ways approaching life problems and choices that promote health and happiness. 

 

Cognitive-behavioral therapy. CBT is one of the popular and requested therapeutic approaches today.  We recognize the utility of cognitive-behavioral methods that help clients with understanding core beliefs, how cognitions affect behaviors and feelings, and learning how to address automatic, irrational and negative thoughts to replace them with healthy thoughts.  This approach can work for many, but we have found it can lack effectiveness for clients who still cannot find success with internal rationalizing between parts of themselves. 

 

Internal Family Systems. Unlike how it sounds, IFS is a unique non-pathologizing psychotherapy practice that focuses on individuals discovering a connection to their Self-energy and power.  When we lead from the Self, we are leading with 8 core qualities of the Self: calm, confident, compassionate, curious, courageous, creative, connected and with clarity. We use meditation and mindfulness to connect with these innate qualities to help parts of ourselves that are wounded or burdened.  These wounded parts of us make us behave in ways that we regret, want to change or seek insight on why they are present.  IFS therapy offers an alternative to working on personal growth through the power and healing of the Self. 

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