Niki Montecillo

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  When we meet, my initial goal is to get to know you and your story and to build a strong, trusting relationship. In our work together, the goal of counseling is to resolve problems by allowing you to confront difficult thoughts and emotions within the context of a therapeutic relationship and find healthier and lasting solutions through a deeper knowledge of self.

Each person deserves to be truly heard, understood, and accepted in order to help unravel the confusion or tensions that we find within ourselves. I believe that apart from innate personality, each person has been formed by the nature of his or her early relationships with others as well as the experiences and structures provided by his or her family. Additionally, individual traumatic and difficult experiences can affect the way in which we see and act in the world. Oftentimes the problems we are struggling with now are simply arrows that point to experiences that have wounded us in the past.

Sometimes a difficult situation can seem like a litany of problems and symptoms, and it can be frustrating to find that usual solutions don’t seem to be “fixing” the problem. Remember: you are not the problem!