About Perla
Perla Barragan is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in California with three years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, and depression. Perla aims to treat every person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion.
She frames therapy as a collaborative process and supports people taking the first steps toward change. Perla adapts conversations and treatment plans to fit each person’s situation. She listens for what matters most and helps set clear, manageable goals.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical ways to reduce overwhelm, shift negative thinking, and build routines that support better mood and coping. She also addresses feelings around forgiveness, guilt and shame, and self-love. Those topics are woven into sessions when they relate to a person’s stress or anxiety.
Work in these areas might include talking through painful memories, practicing self-compassion, and identifying small, achievable acts of care. Perla offers services in both English and Spanish. Her approach is straightforward and people-oriented, aimed at helping clients notice real changes week to week.
She encourages honest dialogue and helps people find tools they can use outside of sessions. Perla practices in California and brings three years of direct experience to her work. Her goal is to empower people to feel steadier and more confident as they move forward.
How evidence-based techniques translate to online sessions
Perla uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help with stress, anxiety, and depression. One common approach focuses on identifying and shifting unhelpful thoughts and habits to reduce anxiety and low mood. This involves noticing negative thought patterns, testing them with real-life experiments, and practicing new responses that feel more balanced. Another approach centers on building daily routines and coping skills to manage stress. That work typically includes step-by-step plans for sleep, activity, and relaxation practices to lower reactivity and improve energy.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Perla collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their goals and preferences. She will check in often and adjust the plan based on what is helping and what feels realistic for the client’s life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful for fuller conversation and visual cues, phone can be a quicker check-in when bandwidth is limited, live chat lets people write through thoughts in the moment, and messaging supports short updates or questions between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and maintain consistent progress.
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- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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