Episode 15 Danielle and Brian Part 2 Guests Danielle Capra LMSW Danielle is a Clinician at a NY residential treatment center that provides clinical services to child and adolescent residents who have suffered child sexual abuse and/or exploitation. Ms. Capra received her BA from Coastal Carolina University, and her MSW from New York University. Ms. Capra has extensive clinical experience working with children on the Autistic spectrum, and children who have been sexually abused and/or commercially sexually exploited. She authored a workbook which helps girls who have been trafficked understand their trauma, while also aiding them on the journey from victim to survivor.
Brian Figueroa LPC Brian is a bilingual clinician at a family and children’s outpatient clinic in Connecticut. His light-hearted approach includes bringing humor to the table of psychotherapy, by helping clients take a moment away from the harshness of reality through instances of levity and laughter. With respect, he understands the importance of being able to appreciate the incongruities of life that we are presented with on a daily basis. For Brian, having the courage to laugh with families is essential to the therapeutic relationship and bringing life to an otherwise difficult process. He utilizes evidence based practices such as TF-CBT and MST as well as non-directive approaches that are client-centered such as play therapies.
Brian was born a first generation Mexican-American and a younger sibling in Yonkers, New York. As a result, he finds himself working closely with Spanish speaking Hispanic families in practice. As a bilingual clinician, he aids families and children work through difficulties such as trauma, depression, anxiety, and parent-child relational issues. Show Notes In Part 2 of our interview, guests Danielle Capra LMSW and Brian Figueroa LPC dive deeper to find peace with the notion that psychotherapy can both improve the client’s experience in the world and be self-serving to the clinician. Brian talks about how he sees our work as an art form, where the work becomes something greater than just him, yet feels personally empowering – that he can help to make a change in someone else’s world. Danielle acknowledges her own suffering and the chance for healing that comes up in session for us as therapists, along with the opportunity to help a client channel their pain into something else, which may teach them to do the same for someone they love.
What are the moments we fear most that could happen when sitting across from a client? Our two psychotherapists share their worst nightmares: when the parent of an adolescent client interrupts to say that you don’t know what you’re doing (aka “you suck!”) and storms out, or when someone becomes physically intimidating. We usually choose to carry on with our work, with the courage to be vulnerable, while cautious in our decision whether to self-disclose or yield to a client’s expressed need for a hug. Our clients teach us much, our guests acknowledge. At the end of our professional day or night, it’s up to us to take care of ourselves, to get what we need to go back in and do this work again.
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