Bio
Barbara Duenas, LMFT
My name is Barbara Duenas and I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in the state of Florida. I specialize in helping adults regulate their emotions and deal with their childhood traumas. Whether we know it or not, past experienced can have us believe negative things about ourselves which doesn’t allow us to have healthy relationships. We create patterns for ourselves unconsciously because our negative beliefs that lead us to have complicated relationships. Maintaining relationships is something that adults with childhood trauma and/or personality disorders have difficulty with yet decreasing some of the symptoms and learning to communicate with others may help get you to have the relationships you want in your life. Some of the work is very intense and draining but getting to the core of where these emotions come from can have a very impacting change in your life.
I use evidence-based therapy techniques such as Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) an Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) to help adults get to have a life worth living for them. I can understand some of the difficult experiences’ others have gone through because I too have had some difficult experiences in my life. I have used some of these evidence-based therapy techniques in my own life and found them to be effective. It took me some time to finally reach a career I am passionate about but now that I am here, I want to help others reach great things in their lives.
I have worked within non-profit and for-profit organizations a like. I transitioned through various different professions to finally land what I consider my calling. I have a Bachelors degree in Business Management, a Masters degree in Fine Arts, another Masters degree in Organizational Behavior and the most recent Masters degree in Marriage and Family Therapy. I have lived in three major cities: Miami, FL, New York, NY and Los Angeles, CA. I speak both English and Spanish fluently. If this isn’t enough for you to feel like I am the right therapist for you, reach out for a free 15-minute consultation.
