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At Risk Youth
At risk youth are children and teens who will have challenges transitioning into adulthood. With early intervention, youth can lead a life of fulfillment to help them thrive despite future hardships they may face.
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LGBTQ+ Community
Dr. Michelle Garcia provides services to a wide range of diverse backgrounds, including the LGBTQI+ community. She applies interventions unique to the needs of my clients that will promote most effective treatment outcomes.
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Disorders
She specializes in trauma related (including complex trauma & exposure to sex trafficking), depression related, anxiety related, distress associated to sexual identity, distress resulting from major life events.
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Adult Counseling
Her work with at-risk populations has promoted a non-judgmental approach in working with her clients and providing unconditional acceptance for their strengths and weaknesses, including adults.
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At-Risk Youth
At risk youth are children and teens who will have challenges transitioning into adulthood for several reasons. The challenges can be caused by trauma, living in underserved communities that do not have the necessary resources to help youth thrive, medical and physical conditions or injuries, substance use, and mental health ailments, just to name a few.
Without appropriate intervention, youth may experience poor educational outcomes, challenges with attaining employment, addiction, risk of harm to themselves or others, interaction with law enforcement, lack of fulfillment in their relationship with others, and poor mental and physical health outcomes. With early intervention, youth can lead a life of fulfillment by gaining the support, skills, and confidence to help them thrive despite future hardships they may face.
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LGBTQPAI2-S Community
Identifying as LGBT+ can be easy for some and hard for others. Distress associated to it is not often caused simply by how you identify. Unfortunately, it can be due to stress and trauma directed toward you for how you identify. For some, identifying as LGBTQ+ may be difficult and confusing, and the conflicting thoughts can be distressing. In this space, you will be accepted to be who you are to regain trust after the attacks inflicted onto you and your conflicting thoughts.
Sometimes, loved ones have a difficult time adjusting to how you identify. It is not necessarily because they don’t love or care for you. Loved ones can grieve with “losing” the identity of a loved one they feel they “had”, and no longer “have”. Although it is not fair nor your fault, loved ones may go through stages of grief.
