Hello my name is Titus Ogbuafor | LMFT
License #
116482
LMFT (116482)/ Certified Trauma focus therapy/ Certified Applied Behavioral Analysis
22 years
English/Ibo
What inspired me to be a therapist, and what I love most about my work?
I kind of stumble into therapy, and besides I have travelled the world, and was able to experience people of all kinds, and see how humans struggle to make ends meet. Having worked with children in different settings provided me with the opportunities to understand the family dynamics and the struggles of children in various families. In families lives the good as well as bad. Working with children exposed me to the term “Born Well, and Not Born Well.” Not born well are children that do not have a known parent. They were picked from trash bins, and they populated Foster Care, and Juvenile Justice System. Having experienced the family dynamic, I became intrigued. At the time, I changed my pursuit of financial career to pursue therapy. Becoming a therapist was an amalgam of my personal and professional experiences. With these stated experiences, I grew in genuine love for all people regardless of their cultural or ethnic background. They shaped my personality and professional identity as well as my practice. I find being a therapist an enriching career, even though at times it can be mentally and emotionally exhausting. I enjoy every aspect of it, the honor of being entrusted with deepest secrets or overwhelming experiences, the incredible human connection/intimacy, the possibility to be authentic and present and to actively listen, empathize and validate their wholeness is invaluable. To experience with and to ‘hold’ another human being through the process of struggle, changes, healing, and transformation is the greatest reward one can experience. To witness a person’s face light up in hope for the future and witness their wounds becoming their strengths and meaning for the future are the greatest rewards for me as a therapist.
I am Collectivist/Existential Psychotherapist. I believe that each model has invaluable value to offer, and the fact that clients direct the treatment considering their educational level and their world view. As a fan of Carl Rogers. I always believe in human relationships. For me it is always how can I provide relationship clients/participants may use for their own personal growth. I believe for a therapist to be able to develop some meaningful relationships with his/her clients, a therapist must be self-aware—the ability to know your own mind and how it works and learn how to tame it for happier and healthy life not only for yourself but for your clients as well. Throughout my career I have had the privilege of working with numerous populations and a wide array of clients in multiple settings (i.e., home, Juvenile Hall, Prison, Jails, Hospital, school, profit and non-profit companies). I have had the opportunity to address several mental, emotional, behavioral, and relational problems such as mood disorders, anxiety, trauma, OCD, schizophrenia, schizoaffective, parenting issues and many more. I have had the opportunity to train professionally in CBT, Structured Family Therapy, DBT, SFT, TFCBT, Couples Counseling, Motivation Interviewing and more.
My Empathetic approach to therapy is to invite clients to unveil self or expose themselves to their vulnerabilities and that they are safe here, and that in their vulnerabilities lies their authentic self “the courage to be” –As humans we must trust ourselves to search within and find our own answers to our own life problems. To be a good therapist is an ongoing process you can never have enough with the human enrichment that is embedded in the profession despite its hardships. I think this profession is very stimulating. It is stimulating in the sense that it expands your understanding and knowledge of humans’ internal and external systemic operation. The fact that clients come to you for answers to their personal problems is reward enough for me. I realize that only when I communicate with people that I expand my knowledge especially at feelings level. The need for exploration of and producing change in the environment, and for self-exploration and many other needs has always been my motivation to pursue a therapeutic profession. The profession allows you a lot of room to be creative so whether you succeed or fail in this profession depends on the skills and knowledge you bring to the profession. In other words, it is about Developed Mindset—a kind of focus attention that allows us to see the internal working of our minds and eschew our negative emotions and ingrained behaviors and unlock ourselves from reactive emotional loops we are trapped on and set ourselves free for a more fulfilling life.
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