Dr. Cecilia Sophia Dominguez, Ph.D., has been a practicing Licensed Professional Counsellor since 2006 in Community College settings as well as in four prison systems.

Dr. Dominguez has a Master’s degree in Counselling, with an emphasis in Career Counselling from Chapman University, Orange, CA., and has also earned her PhD at the University of Texas at San Antonio in Counsellor Education and Supervision.

Dr. Dominguez’s counselling background consists of working with various adult populations, such as military personnel, college students, and prison inmates in areas involving anxiety, mood changes, depression, stress, internal conflicts, grief and loss, relationships, and more. She truly enjoys learning and used that passion to earn seven degrees. Her role as your counsellor is to help you explore and discover known and unknown issues toward desired changes and goals.

This guided process involves exploring your current thoughts, beliefs, actions, and emotions that may be impeding your best YOU. The two of you will explore action-oriented recommendations. Again, she commends you for being proactive in your life and for making an excellent decision to seek transformative counselling! Dr. Dominguez’s approach is to provide support, establish rapport, and build trust as well as provide hands-on strategies to assist you in your life stressors.

She uses intentional, active listening when gathering information about your life, and pays close attention to verbal and nonverbal communication style. She naturally tends to use an encouragement style of therapy; for instance, she will applaud your proactiveness in making strides toward changing your life by participating in counselling.

Additional theoretical approaches she uses include: Cognitive Behavioural and Mindfulness-based (such as exploring automatic thoughts or patterns and beliefs, laddering, breathing, meditation, guided visualization, reflection exercises), or some other guided discovery technique for awareness of current feeling.