With 13 years of professional work experience, working with various communities with children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families, has gifted me the awareness and clarity of the fact that you are the one who makes the decisions for your life. Supporting an individual’s growth and continuous walk towards maturity, helps highlight the tools that one has to help get out of or understand their life’s challenges. With a collaborative approach, we will help identify and remediate cognitive, mental, and emotional issues, including personal growth, adjustment to disability, and psychosocial and environmental problems. I Aiming to Understand adds balance to life. Empowering individuals to deal adequately with life situations, reduce stress, experience growth, change behavior, and make well-informed rational decisions is important. Self awareness, leads to self-confidence,, I like to help by giving you a positive version of you. Taking the first step to sign up for therapy can take courage and I am proud of you for getting started! (Certified: Individual-CBT, Alcohol and Drug Counselor {12 step Based}, CRC-Certified Rehabilitation Counselor, and LPCC licensed in California)