Anxiety & Trauma
Individual psychotherapy for Latino professionals, men, and adult children of immigrants processing chronic anxiety, generational trauma, and identity conflict throughout California.
$150 per 50-minute session | In-Network with Aetna, Anthem, & Blue Shield of CA
Common Presenting Issues
The Unspoken Debt: An innate drive to over-function to honor your family's sacrifices, creating a sense of debt that makes you feel unable to prioritize your own peace without fearing you are betraying the efforts of those before you.
The Space Between: The invisible fatigue of constantly adapting how you show up in demanding professional spaces versus traditional family spaces, creating a persistent sense of "belonging nowhere" and navigating worlds that do not understand your full self.
The Burden of Choice: Experiencing intense survivor's guilt or feeling like establishing your own individual needs is a direct betrayal of the collective family system.
The Survival Guard: Chronic restlessness or a body that feels like it cannot turn off, causing you to constantly scan for the next crisis because you were conditioned to be the emotional anchor for everyone else.
The Inherited Script: Resolving historical wounds, internalized gender role conflict, and the betrayal guilt that surfaces when you choose a trajectory different from the family patterns you inherited.
Clinical Overview
Traumatic stress and chronic anxiety are often deeply intertwined with cultural identity and family loyalty. For adult children of immigrants, the "immigrant paradox" frequently creates a silent psychological burden: the belief that you are not allowed to struggle or complain because your parents endured greater physical or financial hardships.
Choosing to live and heal differently than those who came before you is a profound act of courage. Trauma is a physical state that keeps your nervous system on high alert, draining your energy and inducing professional burnout. By blending Contextual Behavioral Science with body-centered processing, we address the conflict between the version of you that seeks family alignment and the version that demands individual autonomy, transforming historical wounds into a resilient, self-defined legacy.
Our Clinical Roadmap
Open Up: We address the internal conflict of having opportunities or internal peace that the people who raised you were denied. This focus area is about learning how to sit with the discomfort of breaking old patterns, dropping the survival guard, and unhooking from the guilt that tells you your worth is tied solely to your productivity.
Be Present: We focus on the invisible fatigue that comes from navigating the gap between your roots and your current high-stress career. Incorporating Hakomi principles, we slow down to notice the physical tension that drives the pressure to stay busy and over-function at all costs. You learn to observe your thoughts with curiosity, creating the space needed to stop reacting out of old survival habits.
Do What Matters: We begin the intentional process of deciding which parts of the family story you are ready to rewrite and which parts you choose to carry forward. Utilizing Advanced ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) training, we clarify your personal mission and use it as a compass. For deep-seated or stuck traumatic stress, we can incorporate EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) to help the body finally feel safe, protecting your right to a healthy, autonomous life.
Schedule a Consultation
This brief consultation call allows us to discuss your goals and confirm if my practice is the correct fit for your needs. Available online to residents throughout California.