Welcome to INWARD: A Psychotherapy Practice in Orange County, California. When learning coping skills doesn’t seem to be enough, it is time to look inward. Love, joy, and belonging start within us. Pain and disconnection often come from learning through adverse experiences to hide, deny, and reject who we are. By exploring the depths of your unconscious, you can reconnect with and learn to love your authentic self which can lead to more inner peace and healthier relationships. I invite you on a journey inward so that you can return home to yourself.
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About Me
A Mexican and Filipina American Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Newport Beach, CA committed to radical self-love and ongoing growth who is passionate about guiding others to healing, self-compassion, and meaningful connection through depth therapy. I provide culturally sensitive in-person therapy for adults, teens, and families in Orange County and telehealth therapy throughout California.
Therapy Services
Trauma Therapy for Adults and Teens
Trauma is not only what happened to you, but how your system learned to survive. In trauma therapy, we slow down and listen to the ways your mind and body adapted in response to overwhelming or painful experiences. With care and curiosity, we start to make sense of these responses, creating space for healing, self-compassion, and a renewed sense of agency and connection. It is important to me that we move at your pace so you feel safe and empowered while recalling painful memories. Grief and emotion processing may feel challenging in the moment but freeing once big feelings are finally released. If talking is difficult, I can incorporate journaling, art, collage, storytelling, or other methods for a gentler approach.
Attachment Theory Therapy
Relationships are hard! Especially when we did not have healthy relationships modeled for us when we were children. I provide compassionate individual therapy for clients in Orange County and throughout California who are struggling in relationships due to insecure attachment styles: avoidant attachment, anxious attachment, and disorganized/fearful-avoidant attachment. I work with clients to understand how their attachment style developed, create a more secure attachment to self, self-soothe anxiety in relationships, and increase vulnerable communication. I often use elements of inner child work, emotion focused therapy, and IFS in my work.
OC Depth Psychotherapy
You came into this world already exactly who you need to be. But painful experiences can create anxiety, shame, and self-doubt that can suppress our true selves. I work with clients to help them become more authentic versions of themselves rather than “better” versions. I help clients explore the thoughts, emotions, and desires that they have learned to hide from others and themselves. This helps clients become more self-aware as they are able to see what previously unconscious motives have been fueling their daily lives. Through this process, clients often develop more self-compassion, a stronger sense of self, and a greater distress tolerance. They may notice a decrease in anxiety and depression symptoms as well as a decrease in maladaptive coping behaviors (people-pleasing, perfectionism, avoidance, etc.).
If you’re ready to begin your healing journey with a licensed therapist in Orange County, contact me for a free 15 minute consultation.
“What you resist, persists.”
— Carl Jung
It is time to look inward.