About Ana
Ana Montenegro is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California with 10 years of experience. She offers a calm, direct approach that helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, parenting challenges, relationship concerns, and life changes including ADHD-related struggles. Sessions are offered in English and Spanish.
She favors cognitive behavioral work that links thoughts, feelings, and actions. That often means setting clear goals, trying short experiments between sessions, and checking progress together.
Background and approach
Ana also uses motivational interviewing to help people find their own reasons for change and solution-focused techniques when a short, practical plan is helpful. Her style is collaborative and straightforward. She explains what to expect, may suggest brief homework, and balances short-term goals with attention to longer patterns.
That mix can help when someone needs fast relief and when they want deeper understanding over time. Ana has clinical experience in individual and group settings and has supported people through grief, parenting shifts, midlife concerns, body image and self-esteem issues, and transitions tied to military life.
She combines structured work with attention to the therapeutic relationship so clients feel heard while moving toward change. People meet her and decide together what to focus on and how to proceed. She views therapy as a team effort that helps clients build practical skills, clarify values, and reduce the problems that get in the way of daily life.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Ana commonly uses cognitive behavioral techniques and motivational interviewing in online sessions. Cognitive behavioral work focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and helps people try small experiments to test new ways of coping. Motivational interviewing centers on the client's own reasons for change and helps boost motivation and clarity about goals.Finding the right approach is part of the work. She will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs and preferences. That conversation guides whether the focus should be short-term problem solving, behavior change work, or exploring longer-standing patterns.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and learning new skills together. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or for brief check-ins. Live chat and text messaging let people send updates, ask quick questions, or fit therapy into a busy day. These options make it easier to maintain continuity and adjust how sessions happen as needs change.
Questions people ask
What concerns does Ana commonly help with?
What is her therapeutic style like?
How much experience does she have?
What are her credentials and where is she based?
Can sessions be conducted in other languages?
What formats are available for sessions?
How is cost handled for sessions?
How do I begin working with her?
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
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you.