Elders (65+) Therapists in Reno, NV

Hello and thank you for checking out my profile. If you're reading this, it means that you may be looking for some help or support in your life right now. I'm a Licensed Psychologist in Reno, NV and offer appointments both online and in-person. I'm here to listen, help you problem solve the things that aren't working for you, and provide support while you navigate your journey. Whether it's making changes in your life, helping you process through a stressful situation or a loss, or just providing a safe and non-judgmental space to explore your thoughts and feelings, it's my pleasure to accompany you along your path.

My approach is strengths-based, collaborative and integrative--with adolescents, adults, seniors, families, and couples. Many of my clients have been highly traumatized, sometimes w/complex PTSD &/or dissociative disorders. Other issues include depression, anxiety, adult ADHD, substance use and/or addictions; domestic conflict; need for parenting education and support; compromised physical health/chronic pain issues, onset of dementia, grief about aging & general grief/loss. Our goals include [trauma] recovery with expanded social, medical and mental health supports.

I believe therapy should be a dynamic process enhanced by a genuine and transparent client-therapist relationship. I’m a Latinx clinician with over 10 years of experience treating adults and seniors. I specialize in women issues, depression, anxiety, veterans and military lifestyle issues as well as supporting clients through life transitions and chronic illnesses. I adopt a solution-focused therapeutic model while maintaining a client-centered philosophy.

Maybe you’re walking through life, going through the motions, and struggling to see why you keep going. Your mind races in circles. You’re easily irritated, angry, and panic. Or maybe you are struggling to fully embrace life in the ways you previously did. Anxiety is preventing you from being your true self. You try so hard but can’t get it right. It’s exhausting and you’re expected to do it all again tomorrow. What’s the point? Change, that’s impossible!

Currently Accepting New Clients-In our fast-paced culture, we are conditioned to believe that our issues are unique to ourselves and that we alone are responsible for our well-being. This is not only untrue, it is harmful. From the pandemic and the climate crisis to our individual experiences of adversity, we can often find ourselves struggling with isolation, anxiety, and depression. These challenges can so often negatively impact our relationships and sense of self worth, and my goal is to assist you in becoming your most authentic, liberated, and empowered self.

My primary focus has been to help clients that are struggling with trauma, depression, and anxiety. I believe that when clients are provided a safe environment, they are freed to work on issues that hold them back from living their best life.

Do you find yourself exhausted, struggling to maintain relationships, and questioning if this is all there is? Worrying at night when you need to be sleeping? Are you searching for more meaning and connection? These challenges manifest in dissatisfying jobs, difficulties with intimacy, people pleasing, self-doubt, an inability to set boundaries, or lacking purpose. You are doing your best, but its still not good enough? Reconnecting with your intuition, standing in your power, and manifesting the life you truly deserve can be difficult tasks. The good news is that you can make change today by starting therapy. I honor your courage.

My hope is to help you identify your goals. While providing a safe space for your self-discovery, I will introduce you to tried and true approaches that will help you clarify today's problems, your dreams for tomorrow and identify past issues that led to present challenges. We are all continually moving through different spaces and phases of life, trying to establish who we are and what is important to us. Adjusting to a continuously changing environment can be difficult if you lack the support to grow and thrive. My objective is to supply you with these tools that will bring about your highest good now and as your move forward.

As a Licensed Professional Counselor in the states of Minnesota and Nevada, Ellie strives to help individuals feel balanced and fulfilled by assisting clients as they identify personal goals and objectives, develop practical and blended solutions, and implement strategies that will enhance performance, awareness, and life satisfaction. Ellie also encourages and facilitates self-discovery and awareness, insight, intrapersonal growth, and increased personal and relational fulfillment, while supporting her clients and helping them evaluate their individual experiences and progression.

Life is hard. It can feel like every day just brings a new or different challenge, and it is common to find ourselves feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, stressed, and alone. Finding a space for yourself - a space where you feel heard, understood, and validated - is so important. I use an integrative, client-centered approach, tailored to the unique needs of each individual I meet with. Whatever you are struggling with, you do not need to face it alone.

As a highly trained and experienced Psychotherapist, I focus on treatment that addresses blocks to living a full and productive life. My goals are to help clients understand self-defeating patterns or dynamics that may be sabotaging their lives, heal attachment ruptures, provide support while practicing new behaviors, work through challenging situations or life crises, and learn to identify existing while teaching new strengths and skills. Our objective as a team will be to enhance your quality of life by helping you reach your fullest personal and professional potential.

Completed Level 3 Training Gottman Methods Couples Therapy. Wow, life can certainly be wild at times. Curveballs can be much easier if you have a person who believes in you, your strengths, and your abilities along the way. As a therapist, I believe we all have endless strengths, we are here, at this moment getting what we need and using our skills to do that. A lot can be said for showing up. We can only go up from here and learn even more skills to improve our lives. That is what therapy can do. Whether these things are big or small, growth is good and you deserve it. Invest in yourself.

I imagine you are here because you're not really feeling okay. Maybe you’re feeling overwhelming sadness or worry, maybe you’re struggling through constant conflict with your spouse and a hoping to regain connection and peace with one another. Maybe you’re unsure of how to move forward after the loss of a loved one. Or maybe you’re struggling to parent and connect with your child the way you hoped. Whatever brings you here, I will be a safe place for you and your family.

I approach my work with clients from the perspective that mental and emotional challenges are often a sign that something is out of balance. While this imbalance may be uncomfortable, even deeply painful at times, it can be a strong motivator for change. Positive change occurs when we are willing to bring our full awareness to our lives, including the difficult and painful parts. This process is facilitated by a safe, supportive environment and a willingness to explore new ways of thinking, feeling, and engaging with the world.

My focus is within psychodynamic concepts, allowing us to address life experiences, that can be both defined and understood through metaphor. In therapy, we are solidifying your understanding of what an experience may symbolize for you. My goal is to provide therapy that facilitates a deeper understanding of your experience. I view therapy as a medium that can lead to long-lasting change, as a treatment, utilized as an exploration of insight and compassionate engagement, to help you identify what obstacles are getting in the way of your personal and professional growth.

***OPENINGS FOR TELETHERAPY*** EVERYONE NEEDS AND DESERVES TO HAVE A THERAPIST, it is vital that our primary support systems extend beyond family and spouses". My therapeutic approach is supportive, encouraging, directive, and humorous. I see myself as an educator and a coach. I seek to help my client(s) feel safe and achieve quality of life by helping them increase their physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health.

Time and Again ...we give our best efforts to rediscovering the marvelous qualities common to the early stages of falling in love and to evoking the richer dimensions of family life, and yet... We end up ...confused and disappointed, broken-hearted, enraged and ready to quit. Why? Because ...few of us were taught how to cultivate the emotional resources and practical skills for negotiating the daily complexities of living and loving. But the art of living --like all art--requires skill, discipline and persistence. Individuals and families who take this path do so because their love for whom they love demands it.

Clients who struggle with anxiety, parenting issues, depression, OCD, grief, trauma, and ADHD. Those individuals who seek specific tools to be able to be able to manage their symptoms or struggles in order to live the life they want to live. Also, to have someone come along side of them and walk with them during this challenging time in their life that will offer validation and empathy.

The poet Mary Oliver writes, "Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" This comes close to summing up my approach to life and to therapy. People who come to therapy are yearning for real growth and change, and my goal is to help them get there. I use an integrative, mindfulness-based approach to address a wide range of clients and issues. My goal is for every person who walks through my door to leave feeling more whole, hopeful, and healthy than when he or she arrived.