Sonia Trotter-Giron

Hola! Hello, I’m bilingual Licensed Clinical Social Worker based in North California. I have almost 14 years of experience serving high needs communities such as underpowered, at risk and economic disadvantage populations of children, youth, parents, individual adults and families providing mental health services/ therapy, in the Santa Cruz, Monterey, and San Benito Counties. My trauma focused trainings and trauma informed trainings are approches I usually utilize when treating clients from different difficult backgrounds who has experienced trauma and are struggling emotionally impacting behaviors. I tend to consider cultural; spiritual and individual innate strengths to contribute to treatment planning. By adding trauma education to my sessions, as a necessary tool to increase conciousness of client's unmet needs, challenges and resilience. My goal is to increase understanding of our past that may impact our present and future.

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My approach in therapy is, initially, to establish a healhy therapeautic relationship with clear boundaries and expectations to support clients to build a safe space in therapy. I feel this will support their engagement in therapy and to focus on their own personal work/goal. One of my goals as a therapist, is to help clients increase selfwawareness of their unique abiities and strentghs which might help clients to develop strategies to accomplish their goals and to be control of their emotional health and thrive in other life domains.

Mi enfoque en la terapia es, inicialmente, establecer una relacion terapeautica saludable con limites y expectativas claras para apoyar al cliente a construir un espacion seguro en terapia. Siento que esto ayudara a su colaboracion y participacion al enfoque de su trabajo/metas. Una de mis metas es de ayudar alos clientes a incrementar conciencia de sus abilidades y fortalezas unicas individuales para desarrollar autoestima y auto condidencia y estar en control de salud emosional y prosperar en otras areas de su vida.

Sometimes, we need to explore new experiences that might be uncomfortable in life and to challenge ourselves to move forward and improve certain behaviors of concern. I feel clients will take with them motivation and initiative to expore changes, tools to adjust and to manage emotional discomfort when this happen. They will take with them healthy coping skills for life.

Algunas veces, necesitamos explorar nuevas experiencia incomodas en la vida y retarnos a nosotros mismos para seguir adelante mejorando los comportamientos no deseados. Siento que los clientes se llevaran moticacion y iniciativa para explorar cambios, las herramientas para ajustarse y para manejar emosionaes incomodas cuando esto pase. Se llevaran con ellos herramientas de comfrontamiento saludables de por vida.