About Luz
Luz Guevara is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with eight years of practice in California. She focuses on helping people cope when past events affect everyday life, especially when anxiety, depression, grief, or ADHD get in the way of daily functioning.
She approaches therapy with a trauma-informed lens and draws on explanations from cognitive neuroscience to make sense of common stress reactions. Sessions aim to help people recognize why their body and mind react the way they do.
Background and approach
The goal is to move from survival patterns to clearer, calmer choices. Her style is collaborative and straightforward. She helps people identify the inner critic, gently test whether painful thoughts match reality, and practice kinder ways of responding.
Practical skills and brief experiments are used alongside talk to make change feel doable. Luz uses tools from client-centered work, cognitive behavioral strategies, and trauma-focused methods to tailor sessions to each person. She also incorporates elements from motivational interviewing and solution-focused work to support concrete steps toward goals.
She meets people in English and Spanish and offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. People who are ready to begin can follow the site's Start Therapy flow to match and schedule a session.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s own goals and experiences. The therapist listens deeply, reflects what she hears, and helps people name their values and priorities. This approach is useful when someone needs a supportive space to sort through feelings and choices.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks down thoughts, feelings, and behaviors into parts you can change. It uses simple exercises and experiments to test unhelpful beliefs and build new habits. CBT can help with anxiety, depression, and managing everyday stress responses.
EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is a trauma-focused method that helps reduce the intensity of painful memories. Sessions use guided attention and processing to make traumatic memories feel less overwhelming and easier to manage.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and recommend a mix of methods that fit. That plan can change over time as progress is made and priorities shift.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people work face-to-face from different locations. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is lower or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Chat and messaging make it easier to check in between sessions or to fit brief therapy into a busy day. These options make it simpler to access consistent care around work, family, and other responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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