Our Services
In-Person and Telehealth Available
Anxiety & Depression
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Are you feeling sad all the time or have you been experiencing loss of interest in activities that you once enjoyed? Do you find it difficult to control your feelings of worry and notice it’s becoming excessive? Are you having trouble sleeping? Anxiety and Depression looks different for everyone and requires treatment that is personalized to their own needs.
The goal of this service is to help you understand the true root of your symptoms, while learning new coping skills you can apply to everyday life. If you are someone who feels you are suffering alone or lack professional support to overcome your depression and anxiety, we are here to guide you.
Trauma & EMDR Therapy
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EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing), is a psychotherapy treatment developed by Dr. Francine Shapiro and is intended to aid in alleviating the distress connected to traumatic memories by tapping into the individual’s memory networks.
EMDR therapy helps an individual to access and process traumatic memories and experiences, with the ultimate goal to relieve the distress, change the negative beliefs that are associated with the traumatic memories to effectively reduce the physiological arousal and distress experienced. Numerous studies show that individuals who engage in EMDR therapy can see the benefits of this specific trauma treatment model by experiencing overall healing, as this treatment has demonstrated that the brain has the ability to heal from the wounds caused by exposure to trauma. EMDR therapy is an 8 phase treatment, that can vary in the length of time depending on an individual’s personal needs. For additional information and descriptions, please visit the EMDR Institute website by clicking here. You can also visit the following directory via Ground Breakers Therapy for other BIPOC EMDR therapists available in the Northeast Region by clicking here.
Career Counseling
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This service is dedicated to helping you navigate your current or future career or educational goals, including life transitions at any stage of life. These decisions are often difficult and stressful, potentially negatively impacting your emotional or mental health, leading to anxiety and/or depression. Being able to find a career that is fulfilling and satisfying can be considered super important to a person’s emotional and mental health. In career counseling, you will be provided with the knowledge, guidance, and skills to make decisions for your bright future.
Gottman Method Couples Therapy
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The Gottman method couples therapy is a method devoted to helping couples understand how to think about relationships subjectively as well as objectively, how to identify the specific problems and strengths within the relationship, how to strengthen and enhance conflict management/resolution, create a friendship within the relationship and how to explore areas that need improvement from a healthy, non-judgemental standpoint. Essentially teaching couples how to grow an awareness of their individual actions, behaviors and narratives and to discover how each affects that individual in and outside of the relationship.
The Gottman Method is effective due to its focus on our shared commonality in the human experience - Emotions. Our emotions can wreak havoc in our lives and the lives of our loved ones. The Gottman Method narrows in on recognizing dysfunctional negative interaction patterns such as escalation and emotional disengagement to assist couples with building safety, trust, bonding, love, intimacy, friendship and emotional repair. Essentially focusing on changing interaction patterns to make conflict discussions more functional, constructive and regulated from a disarming and non-critical view.
Counseling & Psychotherapy
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Counseling and Psychotherapy have many similarities, however, counseling is the focus for very specific issues and circumstances, with short-term goals. On the other hand; psychotherapy will focus on long term goals to further explore an individual’s past that may be manifesting and playing a role in a person’s current presenting problems, which can persist for longer periods of time than expected. Both counseling and psychotherapy is person centered where the use of evidenced based therapeutic models and approaches are utilized to help the individual meet the goals of treatment.
At Purpose Path Counseling Services, you will connect with a trained Licensed Professional Counselor that is able to provide both Counseling and Psychotherapy services, interchangeably, receiving individualized treatment that best meets your needs.
Life Coaching
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If you need additional help to clarify and simplify your goals, while identifying those barriers and obstacles that are keeping you from achieving those goals; if you need guidance in navigating through a life change or life transition that has become significant in your life, without focusing on treating a mental health disorder, then life coaching is a great option for you to choose.
Life coaching can be beneficial as it can help you get new and informed perspectives on those challenges, allowing you to see the solutions to your issues, such as high stress or anxiety, unable to break bad habits, unable to be creative, or even having difficulty with finding a compatible intimate partner.
Through life coaching, you can experience positive results such as enhancing your creativity, greater financial security, stronger and healthier relationships, feeling more satisfied with improved work/life balance, and overcome procrastination and limiting beliefs that turn into barriers impeding you from achieving your desired life goals. The motivation and support you can receive through the life coaching experience can help you get excited again about your goals, feel empowered, and remain encouraged to meet your goals that can help improve your well-being.
Being a mental health therapist was never a thought or consideration for Maria. She wanted to be a lawyer when she grew up, however, life's challenges took her down a very different Path, where eventually she discovered her Purpose.
Maria is a bilingual Licensed Professional Counselor in CT, founder of Purpose Path Counseling Services, and specializes in treating adults with trauma and PTSD, particularly urban and cultural trauma within BIPOC communities; helping couples learn how to improve and strengthen their relationships. She is a Career and Faith-Based Counselor, an entrepreneur, a proud mother, a wife of an Army Veteran for 23 years, a trained Interpreter for over 20 years, and a proud Complex PTSD Survivor!
Through therapy, coaching, and speaking to audiences, Maria is passionate about empowering others that healing from trauma is possible because that is the only way to discover their Path toward their Purpose.
Presentation topics include:
Speaking Engagements
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Men and Women learn how to identify their wounded inner child and are empowered to build and develop healthy interpersonal relationships.
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Men and women discover the power of manifesting vour purpose when you recognize and conquer the wounds that are holding you back.
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Urban trauma changes the DNA coding, leading to intergenerational trauma as that coding is passed down from generation to generation in every unhealed urban community.
There are many benefits to incorporating mental health awareness and relationship building in the workplace among corporate executives, leaders, managers, and employees that address and offer solutions to issues such as burnout, low morale, diversity, equity, inclusion, and high turnover rates.
If your college/university, business, corporation, and organization is in need of having challenging yet transformational conversations, fresh outlook, and a safe space where your team(s) and/or department(s) will receive compassion, understanding, and solutions, Maria is able to facilitate and lead group workshops that provide positive solution-focused results.
Some Workshops We Offer:
Group Workshops
No commitment, pressure, or obligation