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| About the counselor Background  I
am a Licensed Mental Health Counselor working in Florida. I
obtained my degree in counseling from the University of Puerto Rico
(M.Ed). I have been working with abused women since 1999 at the Shelter
for Abused Women and Children in Naples. I have acquired expertise
there in working with trauma resulting from violence. There I have
created a Hispanic Women Support Group and a Creative Counseling Group
both running now since the 2000. During this time I trained in TIR
with Teresa Descilo from Victim Services in Miami, Florida. During
the same time frame, I attended a workshop in Ericksonian Hypnosis
with Bill O'hanlon, which has allowed me to use my past education
in linguistics in combination with counseling.; it also served me
in facilitating guided imagery which I incorporate to the Creative
Counseling Group Work. I have also attended Art Therapy Association
conferences that has given a backdrop to my Creative Counseling work.
Being married to an artist also helps in keeping my life creative,
as well as sharing my life with my two wonderful sons that fill my
life with creativity and new ways of looking at "what is."Before becoming a counselor I had a Masters Degree (MA) in literature from New York University. This was my first encounter with the new methods in research, post-modern ideas, post-structuralism, hermeneutics, constructivism and new literary criticism theories. Certainly decoding texts has helped in understanding life "stories" and applying narrative therapy and other post-modern therapy techniques. At NYU in New York and also in Spain, I had the privilege of studying under writers like Antonio Regalado Garcia, poet Jose Hierro, Herberto Padilla and modernist Aurora Albornoz. This background education has been very useful in counseling multi-cultural clients, has given be a solid cultural background and in creating a safe space for a specific kind of conversation in counseling with people from all walks of life. I have also incorporated informal education to my formal education "toolbox." I mean this in the sense of Paulo Freire's concept of informal education, which may include life experience as part of a curriculum vitae and the transformation of our personal reality. These experiences gave my counseling a solid base and depth. For example, for more than ten years I gathered in Puerto Rico with individuals that are direct heirs of the Krishnamurti teachings. From those gatherings I learned a way of exploring the mind, a sort of socratic dialogue that has come very handy in my trade. I have been a student of the Course in Miracles and Attitudinal Healing since 1990 and a Yoga practitioner since 2000 consistently up to the present moment. I practice mindful meditation daily and yoga. Through the Omega Institute I have had the privilege to do yoga workshops with T.V. Desikashar whom was once Krishnamurti's Yoga teacher and with Gurmuk, among others. I have studied Patanjali's Yoga Sutras at my own pace. I also have done a Reiki practitioner level two course as part of my "informal education," and finally, since 2002 I have been self-educating in the area of Energy Psychology. My main focus has been on tapping protocols and Tapas Acupressure Technique (TAT). In April 2007 I attended the New Paradigms in Healing for the 21st Century Conference. If you need more information about my practice, feel free to ask. I believe in joining with others in a genuine and authentic way: |
| You and I meet as strangers, Each carrying a mystery within us. I may never know who you are, I may never know you completely. But I trust that you are a person in your own right, Possessed of a beauty and value that are earth's richest treasures. So I make this promise to you. I will impose no identities upon you but will invite You to become yourself without shame or fear. I will hold open a space for you in the world and Defend your right to fill it with an authentic vocation. For as long as your search takes, You have my loyalty. (From: To See Differently by Susan Trout, Ph.D.) |
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