Hi! I'm a Licensed Professional Marriage and Family Therapist, my primary services being in California and extended my services to Texas and South Carolina. I received my Masters from Pacific Oaks College based in Pasadena, CA. I have been practice for 15 years. I help the Latinx community heal and process their trauma, intergenerational trauma, anxiety, struggling with career stress, and depression. I provide services to young Latinx students in their last semesters of their mental health careers.
In our first session together, here's what you can expect
In our first session, we will briefly introduce each other, then we will embark in to the main or specific reasons that brought you to therapy. This will help me create and tailor a plan for us to work through in follow-up sessions.
The biggest strengths that I bring into our sessions
I have a wealth of experience working with teens, parents, families, young adults (first, second generation) and couples. One of my main focus is to provide a safe space for the clients.
The clients I'm best positioned to serve
My clients will be willing to work on their healing process! So, together, we will focus on you! To learn how childhood attachment issues, childhood trauma and other stressors may have impacted you and your relationships. I will help you process those emotions to heal the self and to enhance your relationship within self and others.
Culturally Sensitive Therapy
I focus this approach by helping clients explore their inner-self to understand trauma, anxiety, life stressors & start the healing process through a cultural lens.
Attachment-based
I focus this approach by helping clients examine their childhood relationship experience with their caregivers.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
I focus this approach by helping clients examine the validity of the intrusive thoughts and increase their insight of the positive/negative impact of the use to their negative self-talk/ positive self-thought in their daily lives.
EMDR
I use this approach to help clients process their life trauma experiences.
Family Therapy
To help family member to build positive communication skills to better their interpersonal relationship.
3 ratings with written reviews
May 14, 2025
Tere is a warm, welcoming individual, who makes her clients feel engaged, encouraged, and empowered in their sessions! She is a wealth of knowledge and strategies and I practice what she shares with me even outside our time in session! I hope to continue working with her for the foreseeable future!!
April 29, 2025
Tere is warm, kind, authentic and insightful. I came looking to work on CPTSD. Tere has utilized talk therapy, EMDR, self-reflection questions and strategic planning for practical solutions and best next steps forward that I have found immensely beneficial. I like her approach of working through and acknowledging the past while empowering you to move forward toward what you want to create NOW.
March 6, 2025
Thank you!