Jose Gonzalez, LCSW

Jose is an LCSW who has experience working with individuals from all walks of life. He is passionate about meeting the client where they are, and walking alongside to support them in achieving their own personal goals.

As a provider Jose takes a Humanistic approach to mental health treatment by emphasizing the importance of being your true self in order to live your most fulfilling life. Jose maintains that clients possess within themselves all the necessary tools to heal, they just need a safe and nurturing environment to access those tools. Jose believes that safety is largely developed within one’s natural support system, and will work with you to build, strengthen and nurture those healthy supports. At the heart of Jose’s therapeutic framework is the understanding that our harm most often happens in the context of relationships, and that it is there, that we are also healed. Building those healthy relationships, both in and outside of therapy, will be the foundation of your work with Jose.

You can expect a strengths-based approach where your gains and successes are emphasized and built upon. Jose offers unconditional positive regard and will work with you collaboratively to reframe your perspective and build new nueropathways that lead to more adaptive and healthy functioning. Once the framework of safety, connection and new patterns for being in the world are established, deeper work is often pursued to challenge and rewrite faulty core beliefs and automatic negative thoughts that influence behavior. Psychoeducation, tools for changing behavior, and homework to practice your skills outside of the therapy hour will all be integrated into your work with Jose.