Once you choose hope, anything is possible.
Finding the right therapist can be difficult. I appreciate you stopping by to learn more about me and my therapeutic services. Please get in touch with me if you feel we’d be a good fit.
I look forward to being a part of your therapeutic journey.
Justin Carnate, M.A., LMFT - Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist #147926
My Approach
As a trauma-informed systemic therapist, I take a collaborative and humanistic approach as I provide psychotherapy to individuals, couples, and families. It is essential to understand an individual's worldview, meet them where they are, understand their perspectives, and presenting problems that have brought them to seek therapy.
So, connecting with people through a humanistic approach allows us to comprehend one another through fundamental connections that we share, such as emotions and sensations. Through collaboration and authenticity, I utilize myself as a tool through dynamic conversations and applying skills to encourage change.
Aloha,
I'm Justin Carnate (he/him).
I am a Doctoral Candidate attending the Doctorate of Psychology in Couple and Family Therapy program at Alliant International University's California School of Professional Psychology. I grew up in Hawaii on the island of Kauai. I am a first-generation Filipino American. My free time is spent exercising, playing video games, watching horror genre shows, and spending time with my family. I have two beautiful huskies named Freya and Atreus. In addition, I have professional experience working at various military, mental health, nutrition, and behavioral intervention service organizations.
Teletherapy
Teletherapy provides psychotherapy services remotely using telecommunications technologies, such as video conferencing or telephone. One of the benefits of teletherapy is that the client and clinician can engage in services without being in the exact physical location. This can help ensure continuity of care if the client or clinician moves to a different location, takes an extended vacation, or cannot continue to meet in person. It is also more convenient and takes less time. Teletherapy, however, requires technical competence on both our parts to be helpful.
Research shows that teletherapy is as effective as in-person psychotherapy.
How does change occur?
Change can occur in various ways, but one way is through insight and action. For example, identifying our behaviors and those within our system who are reinforcing the problem rather than improving them and taking the initiative in implementing a different strategy to help influence change.
Furthermore, we can learn to accept differences and effectively communicate our concerns by understanding alternative perspectives, leading to compromise and achieving balance within our relational systems.