About Paloma
Paloma Chavez is a licensed marriage and family therapist who has practiced in California for 13 years. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, depression, stress, and big life changes. Her work often centers on rebuilding confidence and finding clearer ways to cope day to day.
She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about what matters most. Sessions tend to be practical and grounded. Paloma listens first, then helps clients try small changes that can add up over time.
Background and approach
Paloma uses a mix of approaches to match each person's needs. She draws on client-centered methods to follow what matters most to the client. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and test new behaviors.
Trauma-focused ideas are used when past hurt affects current life. Mindfulness practices are offered to help calm the body and focus attention. She pays attention to cultural background and immigration-related stress when relevant.
Her practice supports people dealing with relationship strains, parenting stress, grief, and career worries. She also helps with family of origin issues, boundaries, and the emotional fallout of separation and divorce. Paloma can talk through adoption and foster care related concerns as part of broader family work.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following what the client says matters most. It helps people feel heard and build goals that fit their values and daily life. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and tests small changes to reduce anxiety or low mood. It is practical and skills-based for worry, mood, and stress.Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk about options, try techniques together, and adjust plans based on what helps most. Clients and therapist collaborate on goals and pace so work fits the person's life and priorities.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer sessions and more interactive work. Phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is low or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging make brief check-ins and step-by-step skill practice possible between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible for work, family, and travel schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Depression
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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