About Regina
Specialties
PTSD/Trauma
Depression
Anxiety/Panic
ADHD
Sensory Processing Disorder
Adoption Issues
Food As Medicine
Children, Adolescents & Adults
Modalities
Mind Body Medicine
Mindfulness
CBT DBT REBT
EMDR
Brainspotting
Play Therapy
Sound Therapy
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Regina Faridnia, MSW, LCSW is the principal therapist/clinician at Indigena Center. Regina is available to provide individual, couple family or group counseling, as well as, consultation and training. She created and facilitated HIV/AIDS and Relapse Prevention health education programs for organizations such as the VA and Odyssey House. Regina completed a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology with a minor in Psychology at the University of New Orleans in 1994. She completed a Master of Social Work Degree through the University of Washington School of Social Work in 1997 focusing on Health/Mental Health. She also completed an additional year of Graduate Study in Somatic Psychology through Santa Barbara Graduate Institute. Regina is licensed in Louisiana (since 1999) and California (since 2010), and has been a professional Social Worker since 1995.
Clients will learn skills which will help you to utilize your mind to help heal the body. Skills are built that can help resolve trauma, resolve grief/loss, decrease anxiety/depressive symptoms and/or prepare patients psychologically and emotionally for surgery and medical treatment.
Visualization and relaxation techniques are utilized to manage pain, trauma and decreased mobility.
The Center utilizes an integrative and holistic approach to mental, physical, emotional and spiritual wellness.
Breath, mindfulness, EMDR, Brainspotting, sound therapy and guided imagery are used to resolve trauma, increase emotional self-regulation and promote wellbeing. This process can promote stress reduction, reduces trauma response, and increases one's ability to cope with and express difficult emotions.
A focus on speaking from the heart and developing authentic voice is part of the process.
Attachment, positive life skills, and increased coping skills are reinforced in the therapeutic process.
We can explore how personal or family trauma has affected your life and learn new healthier patterns of communicating and living. The added benefits of the holistic approach are stress reduction/burnout prevention, increased relaxation and a more regulated state of being.