About Damaris
Damaris Tobar is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who helps people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship strain, and the effects of trauma and abuse. She practices in California and connects with clients through telehealth. Her approach is warm and direct, and she aims to build a trusting relationship with each person she sees.
Damaris draws on elements of cognitive behavioral techniques to help people spot and change unhelpful thinking and behavior.
Background and approach
She incorporates mindfulness to teach grounding and emotion regulation skills that can reduce overwhelm. A trauma-informed perspective guides how she responds to difficult experiences and safety needs. She also brings a feminist lens to sessions, attending to how gender and social systems can affect mental health.
That perspective helps when discussing identity, power, and expectations that shape daily life. Her style mixes honesty with empathy and a bit of humor to make hard conversations easier to manage. Damaris works with adults by telehealth across California and offers services in English and Spanish.
Sessions may include short practical exercises, skills practice, and conversational reflection. She focuses on small steps that build coping skills and greater emotional balance over time. People who choose her can expect straightforward guidance and collaborative planning.
She emphasizes real tools you can try between sessions and adjustments based on what is helpful. Damaris aims to meet people where they are and help them move toward clearer routines and calmer days.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Two of the central techniques used are cognitive behavioral methods and mindfulness. Cognitive behavioral methods focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and trying new, practical ways of responding. This can help with anxiety, stress, and patterns that fuel substance use. Mindfulness teaches simple grounding and breathing practices to reduce distress in the moment and improve emotion regulation.Damaris also uses a trauma-informed, feminist perspective to consider how past events and social systems affect current wellbeing. That lens guides pacing, how safety is prioritized, and conversations about identity and power in daily life. Choosing the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process; the therapist works with each person to decide what fits their goals and preferences and adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and guided exercises, phone calls can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing skill practice between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to choose the communication style that feels most comfortable.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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