About Paloma
Paloma Chavez is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 13 years of clinical experience in California. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, and depression while facing difficult life changes. Her work often centers on rebuilding self-worth and coping more effectively with daily pressures.
Paloma creates a calm, non-judgmental space where people can talk through past hurts and current problems. She pays attention to cultural background and how it shapes each person's story.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize clear communication and practical steps to feel steadier day to day. Her approach blends talk therapy with techniques that target unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She uses mindfulness practices to calm the body and attention, and trauma-focused tools when past events continue to cause pain.
This mix helps people reduce overwhelm and start testing new ways of responding to stress. Paloma also draws on psychodynamic ideas to understand long-standing patterns that can show up in relationships and work. That perspective helps uncover why certain reactions keep repeating and where change is possible.
Clients leave with a clearer sense of what they want and small, doable plans to get there. She works with a wide range of concerns including parenting strain, compassion fatigue, grief, career stress, and multicultural issues. Conversations are collaborative and goal-focused, aiming to meet immediate needs while building longer-term resilience.
How Paloma blends approaches for online care
Paloma commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness therapy in her online work. CBT looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and helps people test new ways of thinking and behaving to reduce anxiety and low mood. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to ease reactivity and improve focus, which can be useful for stress and compassion fatigue.Finding the right approach is a team effort. She will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then adapt methods across sessions. That collaborative planning makes it easier to shift techniques if something isn’t working or if new issues come up during care.
Online sessions are available by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video lets you see facial cues and do deeper dialogue. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and messaging are useful for shorter check-ins and ongoing support between longer visits.
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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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