Francisca Lizana
Bilingual Psychotherapist and Expressive Arts Therapist - LMFT
My practice sees children and adults who seek support for a variety of reasons. I see children who are experiencing family changes/transitions, relocation/acculturation, behavioral challenges at home and/or school, who need social-emotional skills development, as well as support in overcoming trauma, depression, anxiety or navigating learning challenges, amongst others. Similarly, I see adults who seek a safe place to express, download and explore what is present, whether a life transition or change, hardships or simply not feeling happy.
Whilst I am humanistically trained and integrate echoing clinical practices, I am interested in the neuroscience of emotions and developing emotional literacy and social-emotional awareness through creative expression. I aim to foster emotional intelligence by learning and understanding feelings and emotions, how to manage them and how to self-care.
I am trained as an Expressive Arts therapist so engaging in the arts is always a choice. Having a wide palette of creative modalities such as drawing, painting, sculpting, moving/dance, acting, music, puppets, and sand tray, for example, assures there is always a choice of expression besides spoken word. Feel free to visit my website for more information.
Skills and Expertise
Child or Adolescent
Emotional Intelligence
Parenting
Self Esteem
Stress
Teens
Trauma
Trauma and PTSD
Women's issue
Relationship Issues
Creative Blocks
College Age
Caregiver Issues or Stress
Behavioral Issues
Art
Anxiety
Adult
Treatment Orientation
Art Therapy
Child Parent Psychotherapy
Humanistic
Integral Psychotherapy
Narrative
Play Therapy
Psychotherapy
Sandtray Therapy
Therapy unique to each client
Solution Focused Therapy
Existential
Experiential
Modality
Children
Individuals
Group
Family