Deborah Gonzalez-Poole, MA, LMFT

Deborah Gonzalez-Poole has experience working with individuals, couples, groups, and families with various relationship difficulties, depression, anxiety, trauma, life transitions, and loss. She uses an integrated approach (CBT, DBT, ACT, IFS, EMDR) as wellas yoga, and mindfulness and somatic approaches based on the client's needs to increase awareness, create adaptive patterns, and improve interpersonal skills. I meet with clients virtually.

I was an educator and a yoga and meditation teacher before becoming a psychotherapist. I provide individual sessions for adults. I collaborate with clients to meet their goals. I use an integrated approach to help the client increase awareness, create adaptive patterns, and improve emotional regulation and interpersonal skills. I also model and facilitate role play and mindfulness and somatic practices to increase an understanding of the mind and nervous system, deepen the connection with the body, and increase a sense of well-being and connection to self and others. During intake, I inquire about the client's history and desired outcome for his/her work in and out of therapy sessions. I will collaborate with the client to determine goals that meet the client's needs and elicit client's feedback on interventions and practices. When applicable, I assign homework may include mindulness and/or somatic or neuroplasticity skills, readings and/or videos, and skills that reinforce what was practiced in sessions and that will support the development of more insight into the client's healing journey.