Samuel believes therapy is a collaborative process based on sincerity, patience, and compassion. He is a client-focused practitioner who concentrates on a strengths-based approach. His goal is to guide clients toward increasing self-awareness, developing new perspectives, reducing symptoms, and building personal strengths. Samuel’s takes a humanistic approach to therapy and incorporates reflection on attachments and support networks. Therapy is centered around the individual as a whole – recognizing intrinsic uniqueness and reinforcing inner strength – supporting an individuals innate ability to grow and thrive. Through his experience, Samuel is proficient in working with teens and adults who experience anxiety, depression, parenting issues, family and relational issues, low self-esteem, trauma, PTSD, post-partum depression, post-partum anxiety, and difficulty with life transitions. Samuel’s approach when working with clients is supportive and collaborative, which allows each session to be tailored to your individual needs in an effort to help restore a sense of balance. He believes in incorporating clients’ cultures, beliefs, and values in order to help them feel more whole.
Samuel Castillo, LMFT