Joelid Rodriguez Pagan

Hello! I’m a licensed clinical psychologist who provides individual and group therapy in Spanish and English to adults of all ages. I earned my PsyD in Clinical Psychology from Ponce Health Sciences University in Puerto Rico and completed my internship at Trenton Psychiatric Hospital. I’ve worked with people suffering from depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and complex trauma involving the impact of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse and neglect, as well as those coping and thriving with serious mental illnesses. I’ve also supported individuals struggling with self-defeating coping patterns and their effects on self-esteem, relationships, and career success, along with major and minor life transitions, grief and loss, and distress caused by natural disasters.

I’m curious to explore your history and relationships and together increase self-awareness and understanding of the familial, social/cultural, and institutional sources of your emotional distress, as we attend to how you may heal through empowerment and working through feeling states that you need not continue to carry on behalf of others. My aim in therapy is to help you feel safe, build trust, uncover and explore, and shine the light of compassion onto dark spaces within your psyche. In addition to those well-grounded practices of talk therapy, I use evidence-based practices like Dialectic Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). Together, we will find the best treatment that fits your needs and values.

Every process is different and unique, therefore my goal is to create a safe environment where you can feel comfortable expressing your feelings and thoughts and learn new skills and ways to get your needs met and live life according to your values. Therapy is a vulnerable process inside and outside the session, therefore we will work together to offer the support and validations that you may need, and I will collaborate with you and adjust the sessions accordingly to the particular needs that you may have. I'm looking forward to embarking with you on this journey.