Carmen

About Carmen Counsellor

The fee is $140 for individual sessions and $165 for family sessions.

Carmen supports adolescents, young adults, adults, and families in understanding how thoughts, emotions, and environments interact, and in building practical systems that improve daily functioning and support meaningful goals. She works especially well with clients facing ADHD and executive functioning difficulties, academic underperformance, productivity and life-structure challenges, emotional dysregulation, social difficulties, family conflict, and insomnia or poor sleep hygiene.

Carmen is especially energized by working with adolescents and young adults navigating academic and identity-related challenges, as well as adults with ADHD or ADHD-like traits who are trying to create more structure, direction, and consistency in their lives. She also enjoys supporting families who are learning how to better understand and respond to the needs of a neurodivergent family member, especially in more complex situations where individual functioning and family dynamics intersect.

Her approach is structured, evidence-based, and practical, while still being warm and flexible. Carmen integrates Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), systemic and family-based approaches, and trauma-informed, emotion-focused work. She is known for her clear, honest, and direct communication, strong analytical thinking, and ability to turn insight into concrete, actionable strategies.

What makes Carmen’s work unique is her focus on bridging insight, structure, and behaviour change. She does not focus only on symptom reduction. She helps clients improve real-world functioning, develop tools and systems they can actually use, and build greater autonomy over time. Her work draws from a strong background in education, clinical psychology, systems thinking, and entrepreneurship, and she brings a fully bilingual, multicultural perspective in English and Spanish, shaped by her experiences in the Dominican Republic, Spain, and the United States.

For Carmen, client success means moving from feeling stuck to functioning effectively and ultimately living intentionally. She values helping clients understand their patterns, regulate emotions more effectively, create practical systems for daily life, and act in ways that align with their goals and values. Her long-term aim is to help clients become more independent and less reliant on therapy as they gain confidence, clarity, and direction.

Next year, Carmen hopes to deepen her specialization in ADHD, including comorbidities, as well as insomnia and sleep disorders, with interest in integrating CBT-I and neurofeedback, and in trauma and family systems work within neurodivergent populations.

Hours In Person: Wed. 10:00 am – 1:00 pm , 2:00 pm- 7:00 pm. Thurs. 2:00-7:00 pm. Fri. 2:00- 7:00 pm.

Hours Virtual: Mon. 2:00-7:00 pm

Experience: 5 years

1. How would you describe your role at The Insight Clinic in one sentence?

I help clients understand how their thoughts, emotions, and environments interact, and guide them in building practical systems and skills to function more effectively and achieve meaningful goals.

2. What client challenges do you help with most often?

ADHD and executive functioning difficulties (time management, organization, task initiation, follow-through)
Academic underperformance and disengagement
Life-structure and productivity challenges
Emotional dysregulation and social difficulties
Life-structure and productivity challengesFamily conflict around academic or developmental issues
Insomnia and poor sleep hygiene

3. What age groups or situations energize you most?

Adolescents and young adults navigating academic and identity-related challenges
Adults with ADHD or ADHD-like traits trying to build structure and direction
Families working to understand and support a neurodivergent member
Complex, systems-based cases where individual functioning and family dynamics intersect.

4. What therapy methods do you use (in simple terms)?

I use a structured, evidence-based, but flexible integration of:

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (changing thought–behavior patterns)
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (emotional regulation and coping skills)
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (values-based action)
Systemic/Family Therapy (understanding relational dynamics)
Trauma-informed and emotion-focused approaches

5. What do clients/colleagues say is your biggest strength?

Clear, honest, and direct communication
Strong analytical ability to identify patterns quickly
Ability to translate insight into concrete, actionable strategies
Creating a space that is both structured and compassionate
Both intellectually rigorous and genuinely supportive

6. What makes your approach different?

I explicitly bridge insight → structure → behavior change
Focus on real-world functioning, not just symptom reduction
I integrate education, psychology, and systems thinking
I work simultaneously at individual + family + environmental levels
I emphasize tools, systems, and autonomy, not therapist dependency

7. What languages/backgrounds do you bring?

Fully bilingual: Spanish and English
Multicultural background (Dominican Republic, Spain-based training, lived in the USA for my first bachelors)
Strong foundation in education + clinical psychology + entrepreneurship

8. What do you enjoy outside work?

Learning and intellectual exploration
Building and creating (systems, ideas, projects)
Personal growth and development
Parenting and family life
Nature based activities

9. What does client success look like for you?

When a client:

Understands their own patterns clearly
Can regulate emotions more effectively
Has functional systems for daily life (time, tasks, structure)
Acts consistently in alignment with their goals and values
Becomes autonomous and no longer dependent on therapy
Moving from feeling stuck → functioning effectively → living intentionally.

10. Where do you want to specialize next year?

ADHD (advanced specialization, including comorbidities)
Insomnia and sleep disorders (CBT-i integration with neuro-feedback)
PTrauma and family systems in neurodivergent populations

My Expertise Area & Features

Anxiety/Depression

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ADHD

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Family dynamics

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Grief/Loss

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Women’s Issues

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