Antonio brings a wealth of lived experience, professional practice, and passion to support you in the way you need through Moose Anger Management.
For over three decades, Antonio has provided support, counselling, and psychotherapy for individuals, couples, and groups affected by psychological trauma/PTSD, anger, anxiety, depression, addictions, situational stress, grief and loss, adjustment difficulties, social discrimination, relationship and family conflict, personality style issues, serious illness, occupational injury, vocational uncertainty, work-related conflict and overwhelming life changes.
Antonio utilizes a multimodal approach according to clients’ needs, goals, and preferences.
The therapeutic modalities Antonio practices include Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Somatic Experiencing Therapy, Therapeutic Enactment, Parts Therapy, Clinical Hypnosis, Gottman Method Couples Therapy, Expressive Arts, Narrative Therapy, Adlerian Psychotherapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Solution Focused Therapy, and Energy Psychology.
Antonio provides brief and depth therapy to assist individuals and couples with examining, understanding, and resolving current and past issues that may keep them from moving forward and achieving their goals, feeling stuck, depressed, anxious, confused, hopeless, disconnected, and discouraged. He also facilitates Anger Management, Trauma / PTSD, Grief and loss, Art, and Addictions Recovery-Groups.
Antonio also worked as a Clinical Supervisor and Adjunct Faculty at Adler University for eight years, a Clinical Supervisor for Graduate Students, and a Concurrent Disorders Counsellor at Vancouver Coastal Health for twenty-five years. He recently joined the Moose Anger Management team; he is a Clinical Supervisor for Yorkville University Graduate Students and provides mental health services to first responders, firefighters, war veterans, police officers, nurses/health workers, teachers, construction workers, and people in other industries through WorkSafeBC, ICBC, WorkBC and Veterans Affairs Canada.
In his spare time, Antonio teaches Judo, practices Jujitsu, goes to the gym, dances Cuban and Colombian Salsa, enjoys outdoor activities such as hiking and camping with his wife and friends, reads, and keeps up with world events.
Before coming to Canada and becoming a Permanent Resident and Citizen, Antonio lived in El Salvador, his country of origin, where he worked as an English Teacher and as a Judo Coach for the University of El Salvador and the National Judo Team.
