Quiara B.

I work with children, adolescents, and young adults experiencing challenges with anxiety and depression, trauma, self-esteem/self-confidence, mood changes, people-pleasing behaviors, self-regulating emotions and coping skills. Some of the mental health diagnoses I have experience working with include anxiety, depression, PTSD/trauma, neurodivergence, bipolar disorder, and OCD tendencies. I take a holistic, systemic and culturally-aware approach, focusing on the ways in which my client’s values, beliefs, personality, identity, personhood and societal structures can cause, maintain or exacerbate mental health disorders and affect psychological well-being and stress responses. 

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I strive to foster a safe, welcoming environment using a strengths-based, client-centered approach. I utilize Solution-focused, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), existential, and mindfulness-based interventions to support the identified needs of my clients and help minimize symptoms, while considering implications of their cultural background. I combine body and mind, mindfulness, attachment, spirituality, and cognitive techniques in a structured treatment plan and process designed to meet each client’s specific treatment needs. I honor and value all aspects of my clients’ identities that inform their worldview and make them unique.  

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I am pursuing ongoing counselor training at the New York University and able to provide mental health diagnosis, assessment, treatment planning and treatment of mental health disorders in MD and Washington DC under clinical supervision.