Respira Counseling & Wellness, LLC

Common Challenges: Anxiety can cause excessive worry, restlessness, racing thoughts, avoidance behaviors, and physical symptoms such as tension or fatigue. These symptoms often disrupt daily life and lead to feelings of isolation and fear of losing control.

How Therapy Helps: Therapy helps individuals identify and understand the sources of their anxiety, as well as patterns of thought and behavior that may exacerbate it. Through building healthier coping skills and learning how to challenge negative thought patterns, clients can reduce anxiety’s hold on their lives. Therapy also provides a safe space to explore vulnerabilities and work toward developing a greater sense of calm and emotional balance.

Common Challenges: Addiction often comes with guilt, shame, and strained relationships. Individuals may also face challenges with triggers, cravings, and co-occurring issues like anxiety, depression, or trauma.

How Therapy Helps: Therapy provides a nonjudgmental space to explore the underlying causes of substance use and develop strategies for recovery. Clients can address emotional pain, identify triggers, and build healthier coping skills. Therapy also emphasizes the importance of support systems, helping individuals strengthen their relationships and develop a renewed sense of purpose and hope in their recovery journey.

(Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder)

Common Challenges: ADHD can lead to struggles with focus, organization, impulsivity, and emotional regulation. These challenges often affect school, work, and relationships, leaving individuals feeling frustrated, overwhelmed, or misunderstood.

How Therapy Helps: Therapy provides a supportive space to explore the unique challenges of ADHD and develop practical strategies to manage symptoms. Clients can work on improving time management, emotional regulation, and communication skills. By fostering self-awareness and self-compassion, therapy helps individuals navigate their ADHD with confidence, build on their strengths, and establish systems for success.

Common Challenges: Trauma often leaves individuals feeling stuck, with symptoms such as flashbacks, hypervigilance, emotional numbness, and difficulty trusting others. It can affect relationships, self-esteem, and the ability to feel safe in the present.

How Therapy Helps: Therapy offers a compassionate and structured environment to process and heal from trauma. By exploring the impact of past experiences, clients can make sense of their emotions and gradually regain a sense of safety and control. Therapy helps individuals reframe their narratives, develop healthier coping mechanisms, and rebuild trust in themselves and others, fostering resilience and healing.

Licensed Clinical Social Worker/Trauma Therapist

Shasterin is a bilingual Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a deep commitment to helping individuals embrace self-love and foster positive connections between the mind, body, and soul. With her trauma-informed approach and over a decade of experience in the use of various evidence-based therapeutic modalities, she strives to help guide her clients along their healing journeys, empowering them to rediscover their strengths, find their voices, and honor their unique differences. Shasterin brings a natural relational, strength-based, and creative approach to her groups, workshops, and retreats, making the therapeutic experience feel seamless. 

 Licensed Esthetician and Make Up Artist 

Luis as your Licensed Esthetician is the perfect combination of the BFF energy and luxurious self-care experience you didn't know you needed. He is the vivacious soul behind our skincare and beauty services at Respira Counseling & Wellness, LLC. Luis is also an accomplished makeup artist, aligning with his dedication to helping you radiate beauty from the inside out. With his expertise in skincare and cosmetics, it was the perfect collaboration meant to be to create the awesome Glow and Glow: Self-Love Series Workshop! 

Holistic Wellness Coach, Chair Dance & Zumba Instructor

Shay's love for dancing and helping others, first led her to pursue her Zumba certification over a decade ago. As a certified Zumba Instructor, she is used to infusing her classes with energy, fun, and positivity, creating an atmosphere where clients can unleash their inner joy through dance. Over the years, she has shifted focus on helping her clients with their female empowerment journey. As a certified Holistic Wellness Coach and Chair Dance instructor she has been able to combine an educational and intentional movement approach to fostering nutritional wellness, physical health, and mental well-being for her clients. Attending one of her instructed chair dance classes will have you reconnecting and loving your body in all of the beautiful ways it moves in its strengths.

Respira Team Support

Jaynie is the radiant motivating force behind our business at Respira Counseling & Wellness, LLC. As the oldest sister of our vibrant team and a seasoned Realtor and Insurance Agent, Jaynie brings with her a wealth of experience in working with a diverse population, a bubbly personality, and an unwavering commitment to helping our community thrive- in the ways she has always naturally done for us over the years. With her infectious smile and laughter, Jaynie creates an atmosphere of warmth and positivity, making every client feel safe, welcomed, and valued during our workshops and retreats.