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Sostenes Lima, LCSW

About Sostenes Lima, LCSW

Do you ever feel like the past is still living inside you, shaping your relationships, your choices, and even your sense of self? Healing doesn’t mean forgetting; it means finding freedom. I help people untangle the impact of childhood and intergenerational wounds, trauma, and identity struggles so they can live with more clarity and connection. I’m a Columbia University trained therapist, relational psychoanalyst, attachment and trauma specialist, helping you explore both the deep roots of your struggles and the patterns that emerge in your everyday life. Together, we create space for reflection, healing, and growth.
In therapy, we unravel the why behind your actions and make sense of your past and present self. Some clients come to me for help in processing childhood trauma, releasing a sense of stuckness, anxiety or wrestling with their mental health, while others are seeking support for creativity, relationships, or professional challenges.
Being a Brazilian American and mixed race, I deeply understand that the human experience is incredibly diverse and multifaceted. My personal and clinical experiences have led me to a profound understanding and reverence for the complexity of issues that bring people to therapy. Overall, it has given me an axis of relatability to support you in this journey. https://www.sunsettraumatherapy.com/sostenes-lima-lcsw

Sostenes Batista Lima, LCSW

Techniques/Modalities

  • Attachment Informed Therapy
  • Client-Centered
  • EMDR
  • Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy
  • Humanistic
  • Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)
  • Psychoanalytic
  • Psychodynamic
  • Relational Therapy
  • Somatic Informed Therapy
  • Trauma Resiliency Model (TRM)

Specialties

  • Abandonment
  • Abuse
  • Acculturation
  • Aggression and Violence
  • Anger Management
  • Anxiety
  • Athletes
  • Attachment Challenges
  • Behavioral Challenges
  • Birth Traumas
  • Blended Families
  • Codependency
  • College Students
  • Colonialism and Capitalism
  • Communication Issues
  • Complex PTSD
  • Compulsive Behaviors
  • Control and Impulsivity
  • Creative Blocks
  • Cultural Identity
  • Cyclothymia
  • Depression
  • Developmental Traumas
  • Dissociation
  • Divorce and Divorce Adjustment
  • Emotional Abuse
  • Entitlement
  • Estrangement
  • Family Conflict
  • First Generation
  • First Responders
  • Foster Care Experiences
  • Gender Identity
  • Grief & Loss
  • Guilt
  • Helplessness
  • Identity
  • Identity Issues
  • Immigrant Communities
  • Impulse Control
  • Infidelity and Affair Recovery
  • Inner Child Healing
  • Interpersonal Issues
  • Isolation
  • Jealousy
  • LGBTQ+
  • LGBTQ+ Affirmative
  • Life Transitions
  • Machismo
  • Obsessions and Compulsions
  • Organizational Wellness Consulting
  • Panic Disorder
  • Parenting
  • Perfectionism
  • Physical Abuse
  • Racial Trauma
  • Relationship Issues
  • Ritual Abuse and Religious Trauma
  • Self-Esteem
  • Sex & Intimacy
  • Sexual Abuse & Assault
  • Spirituality
  • Systemic Injustices & Oppression
  • Teen Violence
  • Trauma and PTSD
  • Workshops

Office Details

  • Free Consultation
  • Online Services
  • Sliding Scale
  • Support Animals Allowed
  • Terapia en línea

Licenses

License

LCSW

License Number

108286

State Issued

California

License

LCSW

License Number

C016553

State Issued

North Carolina

License

LCSW

License Number

C016553

State Issued

Florida

Education

Columbia University
  • Master of Social Work
Universidade Católica Portuguesa
  • Phd in Psychology

States Licensed In

California, Florida, North Carolina

Fees

Fees

$150-225

Insurance

Aetna
All Savers (UHC)
Harvard Pilgrim
Meritain
Nippon
Optum
Oscar Health
Oxford
UHC Student Resources
UMR
United Healthcare Shared Services
UnitedHealthcare
  • Aetna
  • All Savers (UHC)
  • Harvard Pilgrim
  • Meritain
  • Nippon
  • Optum
  • Oscar Health
  • Oxford
  • UHC Student Resources
  • UMR
  • United Healthcare Shared Services
  • UnitedHealthcare
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Practice Details

Therapist Languages

English Only

Services For

Clinical Supervision, Group, Individuals

Client Age

Young Adults (18-25)
Adults
Elders (65+)

Migration Background

Formerly Undocumented Therapist

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