About Merrisa

Merrisa is a Board Certified and Licensed Professional Counselor who has several years of experience working in the field. With a passion for helping others, her patient-first approach to healing centers on simple, effective therapies. Merrisa is an empathetic, flexible, authentic, and reflective practitioner committed to providing counseling services to individuals throughout all walks of life.

Merrisa is adept at working with patients from various cultural backgrounds and sexual orientations. She uses a holistic approach that focuses on the mind, body, and spirit to promote mental health and well-being. As a bi-lingual practitioner, Merrisa believes in working within a multicultural lens and is committed to providing compassionate, collaborative counseling services and therapeutic approaches across the entire human landscape. A critical thinker and experienced mental health professional, Merrisa utilizes mind-mapping techniques to help her patients achieve a healthier and more balanced lifestyle. 

Merrisa is a conscientious and dedicated practitioner in the field of behavioral/mental healthcare and the study of neuroscience. She specializes in solution-based, strength-based, person-centered, and narrative methodologies, derived through a neurocounseling, trauma-sensitive, multiculturally competent viewpoint. Throughout her career, Merrisa has helped numerous individuals, couples, and families treat various forms of ADHD, anxiety, depression, bereavement, family conflict, self-regulation, trauma, PTSD, and more. Both highly empathetic and flexible, she strives to provide a supportive and non-judgmental environment for her patients and enjoys exploring new approaches to counseling that can better meet their needs.

Among her qualifications, Merrisa is an expert in Psychoanalytic Techniques, MBCT (Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy), REBT (Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy), CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), and DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy), incorporating various Art Therapy techniques as well as crisis and trauma intervention services.