Raymond Rodriguez, LCSW, Rev.
Raymond Rodriguez, LCSW, Rev., is a Latino Clinical Social Worker with over twenty years of experience in working with community-based clinical practice. He received his Social Work degree from Columbia University School of Social Work. He is a family therapist with clinical interests in the areas of immigration, diversity, LGBTQ empowerment, spirituality, and working with marginalized communities. In the last decade he has become a trauma specialist assisting clients with complex psychological trauma and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. He is certified in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). He has extensive training and practice in family systems therapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Structural Dissociation and Ego States Psychology, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), and psychodynamic psychotherapy. He served as a counselor faculty at Hostos Community College of the City University of New York, and adjunct lecturer at Columbia University School of Social Work and Smith College School of Social Work. He was also a faculty and member of the Executive Committee of the Trauma Studies Center of the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy and at the Integrative Trauma Studies Program of the National Institute for Psychotherapy. He is currently on faculty with the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute. He formerly served on the Board of the National Association of Puertorrican and Hispanic Social Workers. He lives in New York with his partner and son.
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Absolutely loved this presentation so insightful, resonated so much thank you
Mr. Raymond Rodriguez, I thought your Presentation was excellent. Your Techniques and Presentation was very information and I will use the Client Techniques with my own clients. Thank You, Ms. Yvonne Pena
Abundance of wisdom shared as a gift which ‘felt’ right and at the ‘right’ time for myself as a parent of an adult child with chronic anxiety – blessings right back X
Thank you!
I think I would like to keep a journal so I can see what is going on inside. I can practice mindfulness and compassion using a journal. No man is an island but being accountable for being with one’s self is a good landing platform.
This session was interesting and practical. His demeanor was warm and inviting. I can see the benefit in growing in mindful awareness, grounding, and centering. Thank you.
Thank you for sharing your wisdom and knowledge. Excellent resources for my practice. Beautifully presented. Blessed and grateful to have had access to your teachings through this forum
Very helpful. Thank you.
‘so much of trauma work is working at the edges of the window of tolerance. Great reminder thankyou 🙂
and all the consensual Q’s – so important, from a personal perspective if a therapist or healer ever tells me what something is, or what to do, I shut down or resist immediately. There is so much re-self-empowerment in being ‘invited’ and given space to check in if something feels right to us. I think if a trauma has included that self-autonomy being taken away it is a crucial part of the healing process. Seems so simple but it’s huge.
You Are absolutely right. 1) Voice, 2) Choice, 3) Agency = Empowerment (Taking Your Power Back)!!!
So insightful Thankyou
Thanks so much for this wonderful sharing. So much useful information and beautifully presented.
Wow!
Thank you.
Wow! Thank you.
I felt so soothed and comforted by your presence and appreciative of the wisdom and knowledge you offered us. Thank you.❤
I loved the shift from being in the feeling to being with the feeling. I have found this worked very well with my clients, especially with anxiety. It is great to have this work validated.
Thank you, Raymond, for your valuable insights.
Thank you, this was a gift !
Very useful, thank you so much.
Your talk is so beautiful — it brings tears to my eyes. Thank you.
When body are in pain, i don’t feel it feel it as an ally.
Thank you so much for this embodied compassionate talk on compassion Raymond. Your voice, your instruction, your pacing and your heart based approach tell me that you practise the tools that you share with patients and I find this so inspiring. Your warmth, authenticity and compassionate intelligence oozed out of the screen. I would love there to be more of these kinds of presentations. Are you going to deliver any more?
You are so Right! He was Excellent!
In my culture I was taught to listen to my body and that healing comes from within. Grateful for there teachings because they have help me with my own trauma. I have to start with me in order to help others in my community.
Hi Raymond … I really appreciated your tempo, pitch, tone and careful choice of words with emphasis. No doubt use of these voice modulations is part of your tool chest.
I would think of open-ended questions as having various possible answers: “what are you feeling in your chest?”. Closed questions look for a yes/no response only. Perhaps “directed open-ended” could encourage elaboration, as you demonstrated with the colour reference.
This is amazing information! You are dropping gold at the moment as a future mental health counselor currently enrolled in the program your video has been so helpful.
And he does what he argues for in the video – he embodies his ideas. How soothing it is to listen to him and be in his presence.
Very beautiful video! Practical and such a soothing pace and voice ))