Trauma-Responsive Therapy Services in California.
Reconnecting the individual, couples and loved ones.
Psychotherapy is mental health therapy and counseling.
Through Change Talk, I offer trauma-responsive, culturally affirming online therapy for adults and couples throughout California. My work is grounded in nervous-system-informed care, emotional safety, and deep respect for identity, culture, and lived experience.
Whether you are navigating anxiety, relationship challenges, life transitions, or unresolved trauma, therapy can be a space where change feels possible again. My approach is gentle, collaborative, and tailored to your unique story.
The journey in therapy can unearth underlying needs in a safe place with me as your vested partner on your path to stronger health and self-attunement.
We devote our sessions on your lived experience whether you are an immigrant or a child of immigrants, from a BIPOC culture, from a dominant culture, or from the LGBTQ+ community to help you understand that sometimes your self-limiting behavior is being driven by thoughts, feelings and beliefs about which you are unaware.
We explore your interactions within the various social systems in which you are embedded. The more you understand the social and practical realities of your life, the greater you are able to manage conflict in your relationships, break harmful patterns and create your change process.
Therapy Modalities: Who I Serve & How I Work.
I support adults and couples across California who may be experiencing:
• Anxiety, overwhelm, or constant worry
• Relationship stress, conflict, or disconnection
• Life transitions, identity changes, or burnout
• Trauma, complex trauma, or emotional wounds
• Cultural stress, generational expectations, or immigration-related grief
• Loneliness, shame, or emotional numbness
I proudly offer Filipinx, AAPI, and BIPOC-affirming care in both Tagalog and English to honor language, culture, and emotional safety.
Individual Therapy for Adults
Individual therapy offers a private space to:
• Understand emotional patterns
• Reduce anxiety and overwhelm
• Process trauma or painful experiences
• Strengthen self-worth and boundaries
• Explore identity and cultural dynamics
• Build healthier coping tools
Sessions are personalized, judgment-free, and paced to your comfort level. You never have to share more than you’re ready for.
Couples & Relationship Therapy
Relationships can hold both deep connection and deep pain. I support couples, those in co-parenting relationships, and those wanting to build emotional closeness with their loved ones navigate:
• Communication breakdowns
• Trust issues
• Emotional distance
• Cultural or family-of-origin stress
• Life changes or transitions
• Rebuilding after rupture
Our trauma-responsive relationship work focuses on helping partners and every person in the relationship feel heard, regulated, and emotionally safe enough to reconnect.
Anxiety Therapy
Anxiety can show up as constant worry, panic, racing thoughts, tightness in the body, or fear that never fully quiets. Therapy helps by:
• Identifying nervous-system patterns
• Building regulation skills
• Reducing self-blame
• Increasing emotional safety
• Supporting long-term resilience
You don’t have to fight your anxiety alone.
Identity-Focused & Culturally Responsive Therapy
For many Filipinx, AAPI, and BIPOC clients, emotional distress is deeply connected to:
• Intergenerational trauma
• Cultural expectations
• Immigration stress
• Racialized experiences
• Code-switching or identity fatigue
Therapy here honors your full identity — cultural, emotional, relational, and historical.
What Makes My Therapy Approach Unique
• Trauma-responsive care
• Culturally humble practice
• Tagalog & English bilingual support
• Gentle, non-pathologizing approach
• Online therapy across California
• Identity-affirming space for BIPOC & AAPI communities
Good to Know…
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Therapy Specialties.
Attention is placed on concrete changes you want to make in your life, including actualizing your potential, promoting your growth, overcoming inhibitions, and understanding symptoms.
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First Session
All sessions are offered securely online, making therapy accessible from anywhere in California — including:
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Therapy Services FAQs
Details on investment, availability and theoretical orientation.
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What Is Trauma-Responsive Therapy?
What Is Trauma-Responsive Therapy?
Trauma-responsive therapy recognizes that many emotional struggles are rooted not in “what’s wrong with you,” but in what happened to you.
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Online Therapy Throughout California
All sessions are offered securely online, making therapy accessible from anywhere in California — including:
San Francisco • Oakland • Berkeley • San Jose • Daly City • Fremont • Sacramento • Los Angeles • San Diego & beyond.
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