Feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or stretched thin during new motherhood or major life changes? You don’t have to navigate it alone! I’m Johanna, a first-generation Latina therapist supporting adults with postpartum, anxiety, and life transitions through compassionate, culturally affirming care. In therapy, I honor how your upbringing, culture, family expectations, faith, and lived experiences shape the way you move through this season. You deserve support that understands the layers you’re carrying- and you don’t have to hold or unpack any of it alone. My approach is gentle, compassionate, and grounding. Together, we’ll slow down, make sense of what you’re carrying, and help you reconnect with yourself- your needs, values, power and hope. My goal is to offer a space where you feel safe, supported, and truly seen in this tender, transformative chapter.
In our first session together, here's what you can expect
Our first session is a soft landing. We’ll talk about what brought you here, the challenges you’re facing, and the ways your body, mind, and heart have been holding this season. I’ll help you name what feels heavy, identify immediate needs, and explore what healing looks like for you. Together, we’ll build a supportive plan that centers compassion, cultural awareness, and hope.
The biggest strengths that I bring into our sessions
Sensitivity is my superpower. I didn’t always see it that way- I was the kid who felt everything deeply and thought it was a flaw. Now I recognize it as the gift that allows me to sit with others in their most tender, overwhelming, and vulnerable moments with compassion & care. As a Latina, first-generation daughter, and new mamá, I bring lived experience, cultural awareness, and curiosity into every session. I understand what it means to carry family expectations, navigate identity shifts, and try to break cycles while honoring our generational strengths.
The clients I'm best positioned to serve
I specialize in helping women navigating new motherhood, anxiety, cultural pressures, or or major life transitions. My clients are seeking a gentle, compassionate space to slow down, heal, and reconnect with themselves in this season.
Mind-body approach
Cycles of anxiety, trauma and burnout all have ways of impacting your mindset, beliefs and nervous system. The mind-body connection is essential to help heal from the impacts in long-lasting and sustainable ways. During our work, I can help you identify the physical symptoms you feel when you are experiencing different emotions and help you discover effective coping techniques to manage your stress responses when they activate. Some techniques & tools we will explore include: deep breathing, mindfulness, meditation, music, art, grounding & other nervous system regulation skills.
Attachment-based
Our early attachments to our parents have a huge impact on how we relate to others later in life, engage in relationships, parent our own children and more. In therapy, I can help you build insight onto your attachment style and how it is manifesting today. Together we can identify ways to build your secure & safe attachments, including setting healthy boundaries, expressing your emotions in healthy ways, and processing past relational trauma. Even if you weren't raised with healthy attachments, you can build secure & safe relationships now.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
As a parent and/or young adult, you probably have a million things running through your mind. What if I told you that some of those things are making you feel worse? It's true! The thoughts that run through our mind are often unconscious and when left unchecked, can cause us to feel a wide range of emotions & act in certain ways without us even knowing why. Through the use of cognitive therapy tools including trauma-focused CBT, mindfulness based cognitive therapy & self-talk exploration, I can help you identify thought patterns and beliefs that are contributing to your anxiety, burnout or other overwhelming emotions. When you become more mindful of the thoughts swirling around, then you can better identify them and stop them before they continue to spiral.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Many of us have experiences from our childhood that have left us feeling hurt and wounded. Those memories and experiences can resurface and leave you feeling upset, sad or resentful. IFS tools can help you identify what "parts" of us are still hurting, how it is manifesting today, and ways to heal so that you are living from your authentic "self" and not just these hurt parts. I can help you identify areas that you may need to "reparent" yourself and guide you as you heal from the past so that you can become the adult/parent you desire.
Faith based therapy
Your beliefs and faith can be sources of strength, resilience and grounded-ness. Together we can explore what your faith and spiritual practices look like and what would be helpful to incorporate in order to live rooted in your values and priorities. If you have harmful faith-based experiences from the past (e.g. church hurt), I can be a safe space to process this with you as well.