About Gerardo
Gerardo Puga Cervantes is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, mood concerns, and ADHD. He aims to build a working relationship where clients feel heard and understood. His style is straightforward and nonjudgmental, with an emphasis on practical steps that people can use between sessions.
Gerardo centers sessions on each person's experience. He treats the client as the expert on their life and works to create strong rapport early on.
Background and approach
This helps people feel safe enough to talk about difficult topics like trauma, grief, or shame. In therapy he draws on several approaches to match a person's needs. That can mean skills training for managing intense emotions, looking at unhelpful thinking patterns, or focusing on values and commitment to change.
He adjusts techniques to fit what a client prefers and what their goals require. Gerardo brings about 10 years of clinical experience as a California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. He has worked with concerns such as depression, relationship problems, impulse control, and sexual or identity questions.
He also lists experience supporting people facing career stress and compassion fatigue. Sessions are offered in English and Spanish and he is available to work with international clients. People can expect clear communication, practical assignments between sessions, and a calm, direct approach to working through life changes.
Therapy approaches and online options that fit your life
Gerardo commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) in his work. ACT focuses on clarifying what matters to a person and taking small committed steps toward those values, which can help with motivation, ADHD-related struggles, and coping with change. CBT looks at thinking patterns and teaches concrete skills to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms, such as breaking tasks into smaller steps and testing unhelpful beliefs.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Gerardo will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they decide whether ACT, CBT, or a blend of techniques best fits the issue at hand and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules and different communication needs. Video calls allow face-to-face work when a visual connection helps. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or ongoing accountability between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting into everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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