About Ana
Ana Montenegro is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in California with ten years of clinical experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. She also helps with relationship concerns, parenting challenges, grief, and self-esteem issues.
Over a decade, Ana has seen a wide range of struggles in outpatient, group, and online settings. Her work often focuses on clear goals and practical steps. She commonly uses cognitive behavioral ideas to identify unhelpful thoughts and shift behaviors that keep problems going.
Background and approach
Sessions include conversation, education about symptoms, and optional exercises to practice between meetings. Ana mixes techniques from solution-focused and psychodynamic approaches when it helps the client’s goals. She emphasizes collaboration and checks in about the therapy relationship as she works.
Ana offers guidance for people navigating blended family issues, communication problems, body image concerns, and midlife reevaluation. She also addresses ADHD-related struggles, social anxiety and phobia, and issues tied to military life. Her background includes work with parenting and co-parenting challenges.
She provides Christian counseling when clients want spiritual support alongside therapy. Ana keeps learning through conferences and professional reading to stay current with ethical standards and practice ideas. People who seek practical, goal-oriented sessions with room for personal exploration may find her style helpful.
She conducts sessions in English and Spanish and works with adults seeking change, coping tools, or clearer direction.
How Ana’s Approaches Work Online
Ana commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts affect feelings and actions and then practices new ways of thinking and behaving to reduce anxiety and improve mood. She also draws from Motivational Interviewing to help people find their own reasons for change and to build motivation for taking small steps forward.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will review your concerns and goals and recommend methods that fit your needs. That choice is collaborative and may change as progress is made or priorities shift.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits for people with busy lives. Video calls let you work face-to-face from different locations. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, quick processing between sessions, or when someone prefers typed communication. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care and to use the format that best suits scheduling, comfort, and daily rhythms.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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