Credentials

Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Qualified Supervisor – State of FL – License #MH18259

Licensed Professional Counselor – State of Connecticut – License #001439

Certified School Counselor – State of Connecticut, #068

Certified Psychodramatist

Trainer, Educator, Practitioner in Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy

National Certified Counselor (NCC)

Daisy is a licensed mental health counselor and a qualified supervisor living in Florida and she also has a license to practice in Connecticut. She has worked in multiple settings including Yale’s intensive in-home psychiatric services, outpatient mental health services, school settings, school-based health centers, a charter school, private practice and a sober house with women identified people who are in recovery.

She has been in practice for over 25 years. Daisy uses a strengths-based approach which means that instead of viewing people through a pathological lens, she pays attention to the inner strengths and resources which we all have, but are sometimes not warmed up to. She utilizes psychodrama during therapeutic sessions and, therefore, she will help clients to warm up first, use action to tell their stories, and then do some sharing to help the clients to feel connected.

Daisy’s is first generation Puerto Rican and she speaks Spanish.

As a Trainer, Educator Practitioner in Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy, Daisy has offered both in person and online experiential groups to introduce the action methods of psychodrama and sociometry and to integrate social justice practices. She has completed psychodrama trainings in multiple settings, including at the university graduate level, in person at the Trial College, online and in the international therapeutic community to professionals working during war time and she presented at the 81st, 82nd and 83rd Annual ASGPP conferences. She is a co-founder of the Theater for Social Justice, a not-for-profit in Sarasota, Florida which provides the community with access to trauma-informed justice practices utilizing psychodrama and sociodrama.

Check out the Theatre for Social Justice website at http://www.theatreforsocialjustice.squarespace.com