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Full Name: 
Dr. Arsenio Sze Alianan Jr., PhD, RPsy
Nickname: 
Boboy
Pronouns: 
he/him
Clients Served: 
Children; Adolescents; Adults; Elderly; Families; Couples
Description: 
Dr. Boboy Alianan aims to create an environment of compassion and clarity that fosters wellbeing among the clients he meets. In the 30 years or so that he has been practicing and mentoring other psychologists, he continues to forge an integrative approach that utilizes various evidence-informed psychotherapeutic philosophies and strategies founded on a non-judgmental and client-centered orientation. He has seen how his clients benefit from cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), emotion-focused therapy (EFT), mindfulness, and other behavioral approaches. He espouses trauma-informed practice and is trained in Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) for adults and Trauma Focused-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) for children and adolescents. He utilizes play therapy, play-based approaches and expressive arts when interacting with children and young adolescents. As he addresses the concerns of young people, adults, couples, and families, he takes on a gender and culturally sensitive, and family systems approach.