Dr. Sasha R. Sioni

How I approach therapy

People don't get stuck because they're weak. They get stuck because a coping strategy that once helped has started to create problems — the protective move becomes the trap.

Therapy here balances three things in deliberate proportion:

• Insight — understanding the pattern that keeps the problem going.
• Skills — tools that hold up outside the session, not just inside it.
• Integration — a working plan that fits the actual life you're returning to between visits.

Modalities

• Psychodynamic / insight-oriented (pattern work, self-criticism, identity themes)
• CBT-informed skills (thought patterns, behavioral experiments, coping strategies)
• Integrative — drawing across approaches based on what fits your situation
• Couples work informed by EFT, behavioral/integrative couples-therapy principles, and Gottman-informed tools

Training and credentials

Doctor of Behavioral Health (DBH)

Arizona State University — academic doctorate in behavioral health integration and population care models

Master of Public Health (MPH)

Yale School of Public Health — population health, behavioral epidemiology, prevention science

Neuropsychological Assessment Certificate

University of California, Berkeley — graduate-level training in psychometric assessment

Florida LMHC license

MH24469 — Licensed Mental Health Counselor

Qualified Supervisor

Approved Qualified Supervisor for Florida Registered Mental Health Counselor Interns (RMHCI)

Research

My scholarly work focuses on problematic gaming, internet gaming disorder, and behavioral-health integration. Peer-reviewed publication on internet gaming disorder: Computers in Human Behavior (2017). See the publications page for the full list.