Clinical Care and Practices
We offer individual, Couples, Family and Group sessions utilizing talk therapy, wellness approaches, sensory exploration, and prevention models to assist with minimizing stress and promoting quality of life. We treat individuals from 16-80 years of age. We offer in person at our serene location and via telehealth from the comfort of your home.
Therapy sessions aim to provide a safe and supportive environment to help you manage anxiety, depression, engage self care, and career and educational development.
description of issues
Female challenges: menopause, perimenopause, parenting, relationships, career, life phases, domestic and career roles and adapt in healthy ways.
Male issues: life changes including relationships, career, academia, retirement, parenting and other challenges that affect emotional health and longevity.
Autoimmune Disease- assist clients with mental health struggles, support and management.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder- The impact of traumatic events can affect all age groups, genders and races that result in debilitating symptoms throughout their lifetime. Early childhood trauma, accidents, disasters, war, occupational hazards such as firefighting, aviation, law enforcement, military, healthcare and other emergency services, abuse, childhood, and medical issues to name a few.
Stress Management and Mood Regulation
Our stress management sessions provide tools and techniques to help you manage distressing feelings that lead to unhealthy behaviors. We focus on developing healthy coping strategies and techniques for navigating stressors in your daily life through exploring options together that promote healthier decision making and emotional regulation.
Family/Relationship challenges: Assist clients healing within the family system and promote relationship growth.
Adults with mild Neurological challenges affecting sensory system and internal regulation. (ASD, ADHD, SPD, Mild TBI).
Career and Educational Development: Assist high school and college students with career and academia choices; Adults exploring career change, academic development, and post retirement growth.
Counseling Model of Therapy
We use evidence-based practices through talk therapy, sensory techniques, and skills building to treat and aid in coping with anxiety, trauma, depression, personality changes, illness, and some neurological challenges. Other areas of intervention include eclectic approaches to enhance internal regulation and growth, healing, and restructuring of the wounded self, relationship issues, and family struggles.
We offer Psychoeducational and Clinical approaches to assist clients with achieving life milestones, career and educational development, and maintaining balance.
Our therapist work collaboratively with clients exploring career building skills, academic growth, retirement timeline, self exploration, identifying skillsets, personality enhancement, and problem solving solutions to name a few for those daily struggles that keep a person stuck and flustered.
Supportive Documents
Our office provides letters of treatment to support disability and legal cases for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Emotional Support Animals. We service populations in the General Community, Law Enforcement, Firefighting, EMS, FAA, Military Veterans, High Functioning Autism Community and other interested parties.
Lifespan Adapting
Helping clients adapt to changes in age, lifestyle, career, separation, new situations and changes. Each phase of life requires a different set of coping, insight, and lifestyle.
Mindfulness Practices
Our mindfulness approaches provide tools and techniques to help you develop a greater sense of awareness, reduce stress, and improve your overall mental well-being. We offer individual and group mindfulness sessions for a variety of mental health concerns.
Trauma Therapy
Our trauma focused therapy sessions provide a safe and supportive environment to help you process and heal from traumatic experiences through various helpful models of healing unique to each individual. Though trauma presents with common characteristics, each person has different survival levels.
Meet Our Therapists
Debra Ann Faretra-Tirado is the Clinical Director/Owner of Forza Psychotherapy and Counseling, LLC. She has over 15 years of professional experience working with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder that includes a combination of Clinical and Psychoeducational knowledge.
Debra holds both a Bachelor and Master's Degrees in Psychology with Post Master's Certification in Mental Health Counseling.
She is Licensed as a Professional Counselor in the State of New Jersey with certifications in Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Forensic Traumatology, Stress Management, and War Trauma.
She specializes in working with a broad range of challenges including but not limited to: Women's Issues, Stress, Trauma, personality disorders, Adults with Asperger Syndrome and others. She believes in the process of healing and growth through a collaborative effort with the client in exploring and promoting wellness. She aims to assist client's in achieving their maximum potential.