Deborah Gonzalez-Poole, LMFT

Deborah Gonzalez-Poole has experience helping individuals, couples, and families with various relationship difficulties, depression, anxiety, trauma, panic disorder, and loss. She uses CBT, ERP, DBT, IFS, and somatic and mindfulness exercises to increase awareness, create adaptive patterns, and improve interpersonal skills. I meet with clients virtually and in my San Pedro and Palos Verdes Estates offices.

I was an educator and a yoga teacher before becoming a psychotherapist. I have experience helping individuals, couples, and families with various relationship difficulties, depression, anxiety, trauma, and loss. I use dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), internal family systems, and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing to increase awareness, create adaptive patterns, and improve emotional regulation and interpersonal skills. I also model and facilitate mindfulness and somatic practices to increase a sense of well-being and connection to self. During intake, I will inquire about the client's history and desired outcome for their work in and out of therapy sessions. I will collaborate with the client to determine goals that meet the client's needs. I assign homework that reinforces practices and skills introduced in sessions and supports the development of more insight into the client's healing journey.