Glaiza Lapid Gatdula is a dedicated counselor with credentials as an NCC and LMHC, who has been working with children and families since 2010. She has extensive experience in helping families from a variety of cultural backgrounds, including military families, minorities, immigrants, and refugees. Glaiza focuses on empowering her clients by identifying and utilizing their strengths to manage life's stressors, including anxiety, depression, adjustment issues, trauma, and acculturation challenges. By employing a range of approaches such as strength-based therapy, mindfulness-based techniques, CBT, Gestalt therapy, client-centered practices, and emotion-focused strategies, she helps clients develop healthy coping skills and encourages self-discovery. Glaiza believes in the value of living in the present moment and offers reiki as an additional healing modality, with client consent. As a strengths-based therapist, she is committed to meeting her clients where they are and believes that every individual possesses inherent strengths that serve as valuable tools for navigating life's struggles. Her mission is to cultivate awareness of these strengths and guide her clients toward improved quality of life.