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Yadira Acosta
Pre-Licensed Professional, PhD (she, her)
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Finances
Fees
- Individual Sessions $100
- Couple Sessions $120
- Sliding scale: apply if you may be eligible
- Pay by American Express, Cash, Mastercard, Paypal, Visa
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Qualifications
Specialties and Expertise
Top Specialties
- Borderline Personality (BPD)
- Life Coaching
- Chronic Pain
Expertise
- Addiction
- ADHD
- Anger Management
- Anxiety
- Bipolar Disorder
- Bisexual
- Career Counseling
- Codependency
- Cultural Diversity and Mental Health
- Depression
- Divorce
- Dual Diagnosis
- Grief
- Impulse Control Disorders
- Lesbian
- LGBTQ+
- Life Transitions
- Mood Disorders
- Personality Disorders
- Psychosis
- Relationship Issues
- School Issues
- Self Esteem
- Sleep or Insomnia
- Spirituality
- Stress
- Substance Use
- Suicidal Ideation
- Trauma and PTSD
Endorsement
Client Focus
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Treatment Approach
Types of Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment (ACT)
- Attachment-based
- Coaching
- Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
- Culturally Sensitive
- Dialectical Behavior (DBT)
- Existential
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness-Based (MBCT)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Multicultural
- Positive Psychology
- Psychodynamic
- Psychological Testing and Evaluation
- Rational Emotive Behavior (REBT)
- Trauma Focused
Groups
Chronic Pain Process Group
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This purpose of this group is to educate, process, and learn how to cope with chronic physical pain due to a health condition or trauma.
Group Meets
Location
Suite 200
1902 Wright Place
Suite 200
Carlsbad, CA 92008
Mindfulness and Meditation
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This is a didactic and experiential online group. I teach mindfulness practices and a variety of meditations each week. I open the opportunity for individuals to process feelings and thoughts after each meditation practice in order to deepen the experience.
Session Cost
Group Meets
Synergy of Psychology & Holistic Medicine
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This is a 3 part Webinar: Our goal is to educate participants, provide a compassionate and open forum to destigmatize the use of mental health services, and bring awareness to the connection between the mind and the body. We believe that one cannot heal the mind without healing the body. Phase I (Free of charge): Dr. Ali and myself will discuss research findings and efficacious methods to heal the mind and the body with an emphasis on depression, anxiety, stress, pain management, insomnia, nutrition, and neuroscience. Enrollment in actively open.
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Nearby Areas
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