Josiane Silva

More About Josiane Silva

Clinical Interests:

I work with clients 18 years of age and older. I enjoy working with adults, the aging population, and underserved and marginalized communities. As a cisgender woman, Latina, Brazilian, and a person of color, I have grown interested in the mental health and social justice of the BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ population and individuals who have experienced displacement, whether it is homelessness, migration, immigration, or refugee and asylum. I enjoy assisting clients in navigating life transitions, traumatic experiences, mood dysregulation, behavioral concerns, women’s health, adapting as caregivers, and exploring their identities, careers, and relationships. I strive to meet clients with humility, be collaborative, and respect their views of healing and growth. I value the client-therapist relationship and the analysis of communication and attachment style developed in this dyad, considering it a fundamental work in the therapeutic setting.

Clinical Approach:

I work with a person-centered approach, meeting clients where they are in life and providing them with a safe, welcoming, inclusive, and warm environment to explore their life journey and experience as humans. I am eclectic in modality, focusing on feminist, multicultural, narrative, psychodynamic, mindfulness, and somatic approaches. I am an eager learner, looking to expand my knowledge to serve clients better.

I believe each person experiences life differently in this world due to the singularities of events in their own story. I want to understand how the human body-mind makes sense of past and present lived experiences. We can together navigate this life narrative, learn, unpack difficult memories and experiences, identify the feelings, emotions, and behaviors; the family histories, generational traumas, the cultural and systemic barriers, the social pressure and norms, among many other life obstacles that interfere with one’s feeling alive, connected to oneself, to one’s identity and life purpose.

Hobbies:

Outside of my clinical life, I love to spend time with my partner and our dog, exploring the great outdoors and nature, hiking, biking, canoeing, kayaking, camping, watching the stars and the sunset, and enjoying the warmth of a fire pit. I am also passionate about art and baking, often experimenting with sourdough recipes and sweet treats. I enjoy expressing my creativity through drawing, painting, coloring, and photography, and sometimes, I adventure by playing with Legos and developing my beginning skills in pottery, woodturning, and pyrography.