Dr. Edward Suarez, HI Psychologist PSY-839, WA Psychologist PY61194160

Dr. Edward Suarez is a licensed clinical psychologist with 20 years of experience providing consultation, training, and mental health services across diverse settings. He earned his doctoral degree from the University of Hawaii, where he specialized in cross-cultural approaches to severe mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depression. Over the course of his career he has worked with clients in Florida and Hawaii and has been headquartered in Morocco while supporting U.S. Peace Corps volunteers adjusting to life in Africa, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe.

His clinical focus has broadened to include adjustment challenges, stress and coping, and a range of anxiety conditions including social anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and specific phobias. His training emphasizes best practices that center on the client and are trauma-informed, drawing heavily on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) along with mindfulness techniques and motivational interviewing to address current concerns in practical, skill-based ways. CBT stands for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and targets the connections between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors to help people change unhelpful patterns.

Typical work begins with a holistic assessment of health, diet, sleep hygiene, exercise, socialization, stress management, and self-care, alongside the particular issues a client brings. Dr. Suarez places importance on rapport building, empathic listening, radical acceptance, and genuineness while teaching interpersonal communication, internal coping strategies, and problem-solving skills. He approaches treatment collaboratively, developing client-driven plans and tracking progress with the goal of achieving measurable improvements and readiness to transition out of therapy often within one to two months. He holds state psychologist licenses in Hawaii (HI Psychologist PSY-839) and Washington (WA Psychologist PY61194160).