Raphael Sayada (He/Him/His)

Before considering my services consider the following questions: How much time do you spend online per day? Within that timeline, what are you surfing through the web for? Are you gaming more than going out, and if so why? These questions are the primary focus within psychotherapy, as anxiety and depressive symptoms are influenced by cultural factors such as internet and gaming use.

Aside from working with clients with ADHD symptoms, I grew up managing my own ADHD symptoms since I was a young boy. There is also a large number of adults who have gone their whole life struggling to manage ADHD symptoms without assessment. Client with attention disorder can intertwine with excessive online behavior, while also managing offline life struggles. Sessions with individuals who fit the attention disorder criteria will consider CBT, MBSR, and client-focused approaches.

Adolescence is the most confusing and stressful time while managing the body and mind relationship. Not only are adolescent clients managing current life stressors, but also planning for the rest of their lives post high school. In session, the focus is on present issues while developing the client's cultural identity. Additionally, most of my focus on research is specific to adolescent influences through technology and post-modern social dynamics.

Clients with ADHD symptoms tend to go undiagnosed until mid to late adulthood clients. Clients with ADHD tend to be overwhelmed with multiple projects and feeling overwhelmed with anxiety symptoms. I myself have been managing ADHD symptoms since I was young, and vowed to help those with a need to navigate hyperactivity and/or inattentiveness symptoms. Moreover, research tends to focus screen time with ADHD symptoms, which would be a centerpiece in session for younger clients.

CBT based treatments utilize cognitive processes and behavioral consequences to specific events. This allows the counselor and client to measure immediacy of current depressive and anxiety symptoms to measure growth over time. I will use cognitive processing behavioral reduction tools within current experiences to guide the treatment process.

Mindfulness-based therapy relies on a cultivation of the mind/body experiences when navigating your own experiences. Within reviewing self-care, social dynamics, personal thought processes, and basic needs such as sleep and eating habits, clients will use mindfulness-based stress reduction strategies. Within mindfulness-based therapy, clients will focus on self-imagery to visualize and conceptualize thoughts, feelings, and behaviors related to current barriers and conflict resolution.

Person centered and client-focused therapy centers on the individuality of the clients experiences. As a counselor, I will not be acting as a superior influence, rather a colleague to help navigate current life experiences. Concepts such as self-actualization and locus of control will be the center piece within these strategies of remediation.

While many traditional counselors focus on diagnostic criteria of the problem for teens, I focus more on the cultural shift. Teens tend to invest much of their time on social media and digital means of communication, information seeking, and gaming. In my practice, teens will invest not only in their awareness of digital citizenship, but to ask questions related to the the impact of these novel generational norms and their quality of life.

Gambling addiction is the most definitive behavioral addiction to date for several reasons, however, it there are several variations of the impact of game theory on biosocial psychological developments. Clients with issues of gambling will learn to operationalize, contextualize, and strategize to work through sources of gambling addiction impeding on long-term and short-term functioning in my practice.