THERAPY - WHAT?
Not sure if therapy is right for you? Never had therapy before? As a HeartForza therapist, I can offer nuanced insights, targeted support, and evidence-based practices to facilitate your healing and growth. I have listed below some of the reasons that people seek therapy.
Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Do you feel that you are going all over the place? Do you find it hard to stay focused on tasks? Are you forgetful, distracted, and disorganized with what you are doing everyday? This can be exhausting. Therapy helps you to regain control of your life and stay focused on all aspects of your daily functioning.
Anger Management
Do you experience intense emotions of boiling rage? Are you having a hard time managing your temper? Does your anger affect your life situation or relationships with others? This can be stressful. Therapy helps you to explore the roots of your anger and develop healthy coping strategies for managing your anger.
Anxiety
Do you have a lot on your mind that you cannot focus on? Do you have racing thoughts and worries? Does your anxiety affect how you live every day? This can be uneasy. Therapy helps you to clear your mind and develop a sense of relief.
Bipolar Disorder
Do you experience unexplained reasons for sudden mood changes? Do you find yourself feeling excited, then sad in the next moment? Do you notice that your quality of life is affected because of your moods? This can be draining. Therapy helps you to explore triggers and learn to manage your mood fluctuations.
Borderline Personality Disorder
Are you impulsive and then regret what you did? Do you find yourself sabotaging? Do you have a hard time maintaining healthy relationships with others? This can be frustrating. Therapy helps you to regulate your emotions and set healthy boundaries.
Boundary Setting
Do you find yourself trouble setting healthy and clear boundaries? Do you often overstep or cross over boundaries where you are not supposed to? Does boundary flux destruct yourself or your relationships with others? This can be hard. Therapy helps you to explore ways to set clear and healthy boundaries and honor your boundaries.
Communication and Language Challenges
Are you frustrated that you are not being heard, seen, or tactiled? Do you struggle to communicate your emotions, needs, or thoughts? Do you find yourself having constant conflicts because of communication or language barriers? This can be exasperating, Therapy helps you to explore what works and what doesn’t work, and better understand others’ perspectives.
Cultural and Linguistic Oppressions
Do you experience oppression or discrimination because of your identity? Are you being rejected because of your culture? Are you being ignored because of the way you communicate or who you are? This can be demoralizing. Therapy helps you to develop tools in self-advocacy and to fight for social justice.
Deaf & DeafBlind Identity Journey
Are you figuring out your identity? Do you feel connected with who you are? Are you comfortable with your identity? This can be confusing. Therapy helps you to understand better about yourself as a Deaf or DeafBlind human and find ways to accept your identity.
Depression
Are you feeling sad and hopeless constantly? Are you feeling that you are a failure? Have you lost joy and happiness in doing what you do everyday that you used to? This can be distressing. Therapy helps you to explore ways to improve your sense of hope and happiness in your life.
Disability Accommodations
Are you experiencing not getting accommodations you need at your school or workplace? Do you struggle to learn or work effectively because of your disability? Do you find yourself not knowing what accommodations you need? This can be challenging. Therapy can help you to navigate tools and strategies to get accommodations that you need.
Family Estrangement
Do you find yourself drifting away from your family? Does one of your family members cut you off or vice versa? Do you find it hard to manage conflict or trauma in your family? This can be hurtful. Therapy can help you to find ways to heal and seek ways to move forward with yourself or with your family.
Grief and Loss
Are you in deep pain about losing a loved one? Do you feel that you cannot move forward after what you have lost? Do you find yourself uncomfortable with grieving after someone died? This can be painful. Therapy can help you to work through a range of emotions related to grief and loss and find ways to move forward one step at a time.
Incarcerated and Legal System Experience
Did you experience mistreatment while dealing with a legal situation or being in jail? Were you just released from prison and not sure where to start as you reintegrate back into society? Are you struggling to find resources and support? This can be tough. Therapy can help you to take a look at your emotions and recover to rebuild a new life with social support.
Life Transition
Are you experiencing new changes in your life? Are you feeling overwhelmed or stressed with the new chapter in your life? Do you have fears of uncertainty with the possible new life change? This can be scary, Therapy can help you to reclaim and embrace the new transition in your life.
Neurodivergent
​Do you have a hard time socializing with others? Do you get upset when things do not go as you expected? Are you struggling to maintain personal or professional relationships with others? This can be tiring. Therapy can help you to better understand your temperament and learn how to live with the way you are with confidence.
Relationship Issues
Do you feel emotionally disconnected with someone? Are you struggling to build a relationship? Do you feel that you are having an unhealthy relationship with someone? This can be disheartening. Therapy can help you create better connections.
Social Anxiety
​Do you have fears about showing up at a social event? Are you self-conscious, embarrassed, and nervous while socializing? Do you often back out from social plans? This can be overwhelming. Therapy can help you explore ways to change your negative patterns and become more comfortable in social situations.
Stress Management
​Do you feel that there is not so much time to accomplish what you are supposed to do? Do you feel that you do not have time to practice self-care? Are you constantly on the go? This can be stressful.Therapy can help you develop effective coping strategies so you can practice more self-care.
Trauma
Is your past experience holding you back? Do you feel that you cannot move forward because something happened to you? Do you respond unexpectedly to avoid the uncomfortable like freezing or fleeting? This can be shattering. Therapy can help you process your trauma to move forward and gain a sense of control and hope.
Strength through empathy.
Forza through empathy.