About Me
Change the way you approach your healing. I look forward to journeying with you in compassionate trauma-informed care where I integrate a holistic approach to trauma resolution and I apply my skills, knowledged, and professional and lived experience within evidenced-based approaches and interventions, and incorporate your beliefs and values to bring forth the healing and restoration you’ve been hoping was available.
At my practice, I believe that healing from trauma, grief, betrayal, church hurt, self-esteem issues, phobias, and difficulties within your romantic relationship, is a deeply personal journey. My attachment focused, trauma-informed approach, coupled with faith-based integrative therapy, upon request, places focus on safety, empowerment, and resilience, providing you with the tools and support you need to navigate your individual path to recovery. You’ve reached the right place in making the choice to lean on an intensive approach, and I am here to guide you every step of the way.
Do you feel stuck, like the therapy process moves too slowly, or want to skip wait-lists for traditional therapy?
Roxana is expert trained in therapy intensives that address trauma, grief, relationship issues, self esteem, phobias, and mental health topics related to life adjustment. Engage in comprehensive therapy intensives to meet your therapy goals in a personalized, targeted manner.
Roxana is a licensed, bilingual, Latinx clinician with 23 years experience in mental health and health care settings, working with diverse cultures and races within the South Florida area. She also integrates faith-based or Christian counseling, upon request.
She specializes in grief therapy, self-esteem issues, phobias, binge-eating, and trauma-informed care using EMDR & somatic modalities for individuals and couples, as well as, trained in EFT and the Gottman Method for couples counseling; she is certified in SYMBIS for relationship counseling, pre-marital, & marital issues, and is an Addictions Professional.
She believes in being client-led, culturally sensitive, and empathetic, and understands how day-to-day pressures in life create difficulty coping with stressors, causing strained relationships, difficulty in marriage, and struggles in parenting. Her passion lies in the hope that the therapy process provides restoration and healing from past trauma, and ultimately improves quality of life and relationships.
My goal is to help you break free from patterns of thinking and recurring triggers that make you feel trapped and unwell, help you regain a sense of control, and cultivate a renewed connection to yourself and others. This is a safe space just for you…it’s time for change that brings sustainable results that don’t take months or years to achieve.
MY APPROCAH TO THERAPY
I believe in being client-led, culturally sensitive, and empathetic, understanding how day-to-day pressures in life create difficulty coping with stressors, causing strained relationships, difficulty connection with yourself or those you love, and struggles in parenting. My passion lies in the hope of the therapy process providing restoration for your inner self and your relationships, and healing from past trauma.
How is therapy with me different?
You can expect therapy with me to be a thoughtful, collaborative approach where we prioritize your unique needs and challenges. I focus on creating a safe space, tailoring techniques to meet your needs, and integrating evidence-based methods that address the issues that will help you in your healing journey. We will work at your pace to help you gain insight and develop practical tools for lasting change.
Therapy with me is not a one-size-fits-all — this is where your story meets intentional, accelerated healing. Whether you are navigating grief, trauma, phobias, curbing maladaptive behaviors, relationship struggles, or you just feel stuck, we will create a space that honors your pace, culture, race, traditions, values, and/or faith,. This is therapy that gets to the heart of things — without the waitlists, without the fluff — just real, restorative work that is tailored to you and/or you, as a couple.
– Roxana Carmenate, LCSW, MCAP
EMDR Certified, SYMBIS certified, & Gottman Level 2 and EFT-trained
Specialties
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Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) & EMDR
KAP is mental health treatment that combines the therapeutic effects of Ketamine at low, controlled and supervised doses, prescribed by a physician, that’s integrated with psychotherapy that helps lower depression, process traumatic or grief promoting events, and other conditions like PTSD, anxiety, phobias and self-esteem challenges, eating disorders, OCD, more effectively than psychotherapy alone.
Combining EMDR & KAP increases neuroplasticity, the effective treatment of traumatic or negative events, and has been proven effective at lowering depression, evident in assessment scales scores, thereby increasing scores in wellness and sleep related assessment scales. Furthermore, engaging in intensive sessions (3-4 days) shortens the length of time in therapy and treatment.
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Christian Integrative Therapy & Faith Based Approaches
Talk therapy is the most common form of psychotherapy and is useful to gain insight, awareness, reflection on the past, and identification of what's next to gain healing and understanding. Integrating faith adds more strength and depth to the therapeutic process which helps the client to stay connected to their beliefs of healing and restoration that aligns with their faith, values and beliefs.
While Christians hold true that only Christ can save, make whole and make new, the protocols and techniques employed in EMDR to help overcome traumatic experiences do not take away from or change the Christian's convictions about Christ.
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Couples Therapy & Intensives
Did you know that most couples experiencing distress or communication issues, will wait over 6-7 years to seek professional help? Many feel a sense of shame or inadequacy, keeping them at an impasse, further complicating the sense of disconnection and negative sentiment, that it ultimately destroys their emotional and sexual intimacy. If you are struggling with recurring conflict, difficulty with managing conflict, emotional disconnection, feeling stuck despite previous efforts in weekly couples therapy, feeling paralyzing shame of failure, or simply desire to improve as a couple, or start your relationship “right”, a couples intensive is your path to restoration, growth as a unit, and sustainable change that rebuilds trust, deepens intimacy, and resolves pervasive patterns in a quicker manner
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Trauma Intensives
Trauma therapy intensives are condensed, and expedite sessions that provide a "fast pass" to effectively addressing painful, disturbing or overwhelming memories, feelings and negative core beliefs related to what you would consider traumatic experiences, instead of waiting due to therapist wait-lists, or attempting to talk through the trauma at weekly or bi-weekly sessions. Trauma-informed intensives bring the targeted tools, theories, techniques and care to resolve the deep pain that talk therapy is unable to do. The 53 minute medical model of therapy employed by insurance companies boxes your reprocessing into that hour weekly, further delaying your path to closure and your sense of resolution. Trauma Intensives uniquely provide dedicated time and space between client and therapist to re-process unresolved pain at your pace, and regain a sense of control and safety in your life.
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EMDR Therapy
EMDR is a structured trauma-informed modality or form of therapy that addresses the “implicit” or fragmented memories from your past, negative core beliefs developed early on that have shaded the decisions in your life, and the emotions and feelings that get triggered and cause somatic and emotional distress, many times without notice. EMDR is a holistic approach to trauma where all facets of your body, mind and life experience, as well as your senses are taken into account when preparing, reprocessing, regulation and closing. Faith-led beliefs are also taken into account, as client finds important and necessary. For those struggling with overwhelming emotions, emotional dysregulation, flashbacks, self-esteem, phobias, addictive or compulsive behaviors, disordered eating, anxiety, difficulty trusting others, or feeling stuck in patterns of fear or distress, EMDR is a right fit!
Want to know a little more about your therapist, Roxana?
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Roxana obtained her Masters at Florida International University and has over 23 years experience in Mental health, community health, substance abuse, and health care, working within the clinical, behavioral and operational sectors in various positions and capacities.
She is a licensed Clinical Social Worker and psychotherapist in the States of Florida and South Carolina.
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Roxana is a Certified EMDR Therapist, a Masters Level Certified Addictions Professional in the State of Florida, and has a certificate in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy. She is also certified in SYMBIS for couples counseling and pre-marital counseling, as well as Level 2 Gottman Method trained.
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Roxana is a Latinx therapist who grew up and was trained in the diverse landscape of South Florida. Her training and experience encompasses the fields of medial, behavioral, substance abuse and substance abuse. She has expanded her realm of knowledge, knowing the value of modern, creative and safe therapies, to include psychedelics, including Ketamine as a treatment for medication-resistant depression and Past Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
