Angelyne Arellano is a Tagalog & English-speaking Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, focusing on trauma-responsive care with cultural humility to help adults and couples, including those in the Filipinx, AAPI and BIPOC communities, unburden themselves from anxious beliefs and relational patterns.
Contact me for a free 15-minute phone call to see if we’re a good fit to work together.
Change Talk
refers to a person's mention and discussion of his, her, or their Desire, Ability, Reason, and Need to change behavior and commitment to changing. The concept of change talk gives life to your abilities and desires to change whether it be your habits, your thinking, your way of living, or your way of connecting with others.
Anxiety, depression and loneliness are natural experiences of being human. They are emotional guard dogs telling you that life events, like loss or trauma or relationship conflict, are emotionally distressing. Together, we will uncover how systems in which you are embedded affected your beliefs, emotions and responses to life events and relationships so you can get control over your body for your healing and resilience.
Exploring the complexities of multi-cultural influences in your life are also vital in our work to ensure that your change process honors your cultural identity, your ancestors and elders’ survival, and the nuanced ways you have had to navigate a Western-dominant world that sometimes comes into conflict with each other.
Your time with me, our talks, are compassionately useful for your understanding of and evolution from behavioral and generational cycles that no longer serve you or your lineage.
Allow me to be a witness to your life.
I invite you to engage in change talk.
Filipino/a/x, Asian, Asian-American, Pacific Islander, Black and other historically marginalized groups are typically cautious to share how they feel.
Talking about your inner world and mental and emotional health can be awkward and feel that you’ll betray your family or culture. I get it. I was raised in a collectivist society where we think about the whole family or group. We are not individualistic in nature so talking about our discontent can be seen as a negative reflection of the whole. We end up carrying pain in our bodies by staying silent and holding things in out of fear and of historical and systemic trauma.
Move from coping to healing.
Crafting healthy ways to care for your body, to express yourself and how to be in relationships is self-nurturing. Your empowered self will then be able to live your life with less anxiety, be more present and continue being with people in the way you want.
