When Talking
Isn’t Enough
Get to the root of what’s really holding you back
Christine A. Velasquez, LCSW (61047)
Somewhere safe with someone good
My therapy addresses the cognitive, behavioral, and somatic root of your problem
1. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
EMDRIA Certified Therapist
2. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Certified by the Academy of Cognitive Therapy
3. Mindfulness Practice and Meditation *
4. Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT)
5. Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
6. Seeking Safety
7. Problem Solving Treatment (PST)
8. The Positive Parenting Program (Triple-P)
9. Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)
I am trained in nine evidence based practices (EBPs) which are therapeutic interventions that have been researched, tested, and scientifically proven to work.
However, my command of these practices serve a supporting role to my fundamentally humanistic and mindfully wholistic approach. What does that mean? It means I will never force you or your problems into a conveniently neat theoretical box! Ultimately, everyone has specific needs and goals, and your treatment with me will reflect that!
Helping others is my life’s passion; finding effective and efficient ways to do so is my life’s work!
Outside my private practice, the bulk of my work has been with English and Spanish speaking adults and youth, and the severely and persistently mentally ill (SPMI) population.
For over 15 years I have facilitated groups, provided individual counseling, and offered mental health consultation as a Psychiatric Social Worker for the largest public mental health provider in the United States — the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health (LAC-DMH). My work has included intensive, wraparound care through Full Service Partnership (FSP) programs with high-risk adolescents, as well as serving as a crisis responder for the Psychiatric Mobile Response Team. This breadth of experience has exposed me to the full spectrum of mental health challenges — from chronic and complex trauma to acute crises — equipping me with the clinical depth and calm presence needed to support even the most high-risk and complex situations in my private practice today.
Good therapy can feel like work, especially at the beginning. However, I will do my best to be right there, with you every step of the way, offering steady support until it — and life — starts feeling easier.
No one can “fail” at counseling or coaching. My job will be to figure out how best to help you, to be honest when something isn’t working (and why), and to keep adjusting until we find what does. Yes, freeing yourself from emotional pain, old patterns, or that heavy ugh-ness feeling will take real effort and commitment. But I will always do my best to bring you the right tools, resources, and approaches so you feel truly empowered.
You deserve to feel better and you don’t have to do it alone ♡
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? ~ Mary Oliver
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens. -Carl Jung
As a licensed clinical social worker, I am a mandated reporter and must legally break confidentiality and seek out assistance should I discover that a person obtaining services from me, for example, has plans and intentions to commit suicide, harm others, or discloses the abuse of a child, disabled, or elderly person.