Haylee Corrales

Background

About Haylee Corrales

Dr. Haylee Corrales is a registered psychological assistant (PSB94020910). Since 2009, she counseled numerous adults, children, couples, and families, exploring a variety issues, including but not limited to depression, anxiety, trauma, family conflict resolution issues, anger management, and more. Her clinical experience began in a community mental health setting working with at-risk youth in the foster care system focusing upon children with severe emotional disturbances. She provided family therapy and individual therapy using a cultural-sensitive approach. She recently completed two years of pre-doctoral training at Airport Marina Counseling Service. She gained comprehensive therapeutic experience working with individuals and couples applying a psychodynamic orientation incorporating principles from Intersubjective Systems Theory, Relational Psychoanalysis, Imago Relationship Therapy, and Object Relations and Self-Psychology. Through this in depth exposure, she refined her understanding of trauma events as the root cause of many emotional disturbances. Dr. Corrales employs an integrative, empathic approach along with psychodynamic techniques which empower the client to be their authentic selves, to get in touch with their passion and sense of purpose, and to form a deeper connection with themselves. Patients are challenged to reach new insights in their lives, focusing on personal growth and change in an effort to heal at their core in order to feel an enhanced sense of worth. She has uncovered that true change requires one to tolerate many negative, complex feelings such as fear, guilt, shame, and anxiety. In each session, Dr. Corrales strives to assist each client to identify, own, tolerate and regulate all of the feelings that go along with personal growth and change. Importantly, when working with clients, she always approaches the therapeutic relationship with ultimate respect, a genuine presence, unconditional positive regard, warmth and compassion.