What is the duration of treatment?

Therapy looks different for each person and we cannot say how long you will work with us. Either you have reached your treatment plan goals and objectives, or one day, you’ll wake up and realize that you got what you came for from therapy. You’ll have a feeling of readiness to be done and that’s the day we are working for.

How do I know I am appropriate for services at Camacho Counseling LLC?

We are committed to providing quality care within our scope of practice. However, there are certain situations and individuals that we are unable to work with due to the limitations of training, and the need for a more comprehensive support system. Specifically, we do not provide services to people struggling with:

1. Perpetrators of domestic violence

2. Substance use disorder services

3. Active domestic violence situations

4. Eating disorders

5. People recently released from a hospital after a recent suicide attempt.

Due to the specialized nature of working with these presentations and oftentimes requirements for a multi-disciplinary team, close supervision and an intensive wrap-around care approach that involves coordination with psychiatrists, medical providers, and crisis intervention specialists, we are unable to provide the continuous and frequent support necessary for these individuals during their recovery process. It is essential that individuals needing these types of services are referred to the appropriate professionals or treatment centers that can provide the specialized care they require. We strive to be transparent about these boundaries in order to ensure that clients receive the most appropriate care for their needs.

What is EMDR?

EMDR is a memory-based therapy, which focuses on memory storage and conceptualizes that the past impacts the present. EMDR resolves unprocessed traumatic memories. If you notice disturbance within your body, emotions, or thoughts upon recalling an event or memory, EMDR can support reducing the disturbance by retrieving the memory and allowing the opportunity to store it in a more adaptive way that will no longer activate the nervous system as it once did. EMDR does not focus on changing the emotions, thoughts or behaviors like in other models, it allows the brain to resume its natural healing process. EMDR is not diagnosis specific and it's effective across age, gender, and culture.

What is Internal Family Systems?

Internal Family Systems is an evidence-based model which helps us understand internal parts of ourselves. The goal is to unburden both trauma holding parts of us and protective parts of us so we can address life from a less defensive responses and increase a self-led system. To be self-led means experiencing life from a place of compassion, creativity, curiosity, courage, clarity, confidence, connectedness, confidence, calm, being present, having perspective, playfulness, patience, and persistence. EMDR helps unburden the parts of us responding to trauma.

What is Attachment Therapy?

Attachment Therapy explores early attachment experiences with our primary caregivers and how it shapes the adults that we become. At times, when we struggle to form meaningful bonds as adults, it can be linked to negative early attachment experiences. EMDR will target attachment wounds and will strengthen the capacity for a secure attachment through reprocessing and modeling in the therapeutic relationship.

What is Narrative Therapy?

Narrative Therapy helps people struggling with the internalization of what happened to them. How you tell stories about your life and relationships is explored and aspects of your story when negatively impacting you are targeted in EMDR to develop more adaptive and integrated personal narratives. The goal is to find your voice and re-author new and preferred stories about your life and relationships.

What is Emotionally Focused Therapy?

Rooted in attachment theory, this couples therapy modality helps couples explore and understand their emotions that drive conflict or disconnection. EFT helps partners feel more emotionally connected, safe, and supported by each other. EFT is helpful for couples who feel distant, stuck in conflict, or affected by past trauma.