Meet CarmenI’m a psychotherapist who is passionate about helping people with healing, growth and healthy change.
I received my formal psychology training at Marymount University, where I earned the Master of Arts degree in Counseling.
My training and work history includes mental health counseling with HIV/AIDS clients, grief counseling with clients experiencing depression and anxiety, and addictions counseling with clients experiencing mental health disorders. I have additional training and experience in body-mind therapies, creative arts techniques, and crisis and suicide intervention.
My post-graduate study includes teacher training certification in Jon Kabat-Zinn’s Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program based at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and Body-Mind Psychotherapy training with Susan Aposhyan, the former director of Naropa University’s Somatic Psychology program.
Personally, I'm familiar with life path changes, as I worked in several fields before a midlife shift to psychology. My experiences as a public radio news reporter, writer, editor, voice talent, literacy advocate and published poet have informed my life path. I bring the creativity and wisdom I've gained from family, friends, colleagues, mentors and teachers to my work.
As the daughter of immigrants, I have an innate cultural sensitivity. This includes a deep respect for all world and spiritual views, and sexual and gender identities.
Credentials
~Licensure: Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in Maryland
~Board Certified by the National Board for Certified Counselors
Education/Training Highlights
~Master of Arts Degree, Counseling, Marymount University, Arlington, Virginia
~Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Teacher Training Certification (Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D.), Mike Healy, Ed.D.
~Body Mind Psychotherapy, Susan Aposhyan, LPC
~Advanced Asian Meditation Therapies, Jack Mangold, LCSW, Johns Hopkins University
~Expressive Arts Techniques to Resolve Grief and Pain, Tana Slay, Ph.D.
~CrisisLink Crisis/Suicide Hotline Training, American Association of Suicidology
Experience
~Psychotherapist in Private Practice, Washington, DC
~Kolmac Clinic, Washington, DC
~Capital Hospice, Manassas & Falls Church, Virginia
~Carl Vogel Center, Washington, DC
~Demeter House, Vanguard Services, Arlington, Virginia
~CrisisLink Crisis/Suicide Hotline Listener, Arlington, Virginia
Memberships
~United States Association for Body Psychotherapists
~DC Area Guild of Body Psychotherapists
