Therapy can be a frightening, overwhelming process, yet one of the most rewarding and life changing experiences of your life. It allows you to be you, share your thoughts and feelings without judgement, feel safe, gain insight into your thought process, your behaviors, and learn to be in control of your overall experiences. Through your strengths and weaknesses, you will learn to embrace each and every experience, and you will gain the knowledge to make the changes you need to achieve your goals. You will find the power within you to bring fulfillment to your life journey. I am a bilingual (English/Spanish) licensed clinical social worker with over 15 years of experience helping people, couples, and families grow, and learn what they need to have a more fulfilling life experience. I will listen to your life experience. I will listen to your challenges. I will work with you on reaching your goals or helping you identify your goals in order for you to feel successful in our therapeutic process.
During our first session, I will ask you questions to get to know you. I will learn about your background, your history, your relationships, your medical history, your family of origin, and your current experiences such as who you are living with, your relationships, children, employment, and any other information that could be helpful for me to understand your current experience.
I approach you in every session as you are the expert in your life. I listen to you, work to understand your perspective, your experience, and use your own strengths to help you move forward into reaching the goals you are seeking to reach. I will help you see the things you haven't seen, reflect on the things you haven't thought about, and make the changes you hadn't previously considered or wanted to make. I will help you gain clarity on who you want to be, and empower you with the tools you need to be that person you are eager to be.
I have extensive history working with adolescents, adults, and women experiencing life/mood changes due to the birth of a child, and I have a great passion for taking each patient for who they are and helping them work towards a more fulfilling life journey. Often, therapy seems overwhelming, scary, unnecessary, or even represents a sign of weakness, however, think about what it will be like to live with your internal battle for the rest of your life because the thought of working through these challenges seems unnecessary or scary? What if confronting these challenges now allows you to live a life with more freedom from pain, hurt, anger, sadness, anxiety, fear, unhappiness? What if confronting these challenges allows you to heal and leave behind all that has been slowing you down or stopping you from living the life you want to live or live it in the way you want to live it?
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Cash - $150 per session
Aetna
Aetna - Allied Benefits
Aetna - ASR Health Benefits
Aetna - Luminare
Aetna - Medicare
Aetna - Moda
Aetna - WebTPA
Aetna – HealthEZ
All Savers
Amerihealth Administrators
Amerihealth NJ Medicare Advantage
Anthem
Arlo
AvMed
Blue Cross
CalViva Health (Medi-Cal)
Carelon Behavioral Health (Commercial)
Centivo
Central California Alliance for Health (Medi-Cal)
Cigna
Cigna - HealthEZ
Community Health Plan of Imperial Valley (Medi-Cal)
EAP:Cigna
EAP:Evernorth
Evernorth
Gold Coast Health Plan (Medi-Cal)
Gold Coast Health Plan Total Care Advantage (HMO D-SNP)
Golden Rule
GTEB
Harvard Pilgrim/UnitedHealthcare
Health Net (Commercial)
Health Net (Medi-Cal)
Humana - Medicare
Humana Dual (Medicare & Medicaid)
IHSS Healthy Workers
Independence Administrators
Independence Blue Cross
L.A. Care Covered
L.A. Care Covered Direct
L.A. Care PASC-SEIU
Optum
OptumHealth Complex Medical Conditions
Oscar
Oxford
Scripps Health Plan
Surest (formerly Bind)
Sutter Health Plan
Tufts Health/Cigna
United Medical Resources
UnitedHealthcare Complete Care (C-SNP)
UnitedHealthcare Dual (Medicare & Medicaid)
UnitedHealthcare Life Insurance
UnitedHealthcare Shared Services
UnitedHealthcare StudentResources
UnitedHealthcare/Optum
UnitedHealthcare/Optum - Medicare
WellCare
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
I use CBT to help my patients understand how their thoughts, feelings and behaviors are connected, and how they influence and/or affect each other. I will work to help you identify your thoughts, learn to see a broader perspective or alternative way of thinking about things, to help reframe your thoughts to help you feel more aligned and live your life more aligned to what you want it to be.
1 rating with written reviews
November 19, 2025
I was nervous for my first session, but Brenda made me feel really comfortable.