Kennia Torres, LMFT

Kennia Torres is a licensed marriage and family therapist who uses cognitive behavioral tools to help people shift unhelpful thoughts and actions. She speaks English and Spanish and has 14 years of clinical experience in California. Her approach aims to make therapy practical and grounded in everyday life.

Kennia helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and addiction-related struggles. She also addresses relationship and intimacy issues, codependency, family of origin concerns, and challenges tied to caregiving or fatherhood. Her work includes support for trauma and abuse survivors and people coping with major life changes.

She favors clear, skill-based work in sessions. That often looks like noticing thought patterns, practicing new behaviors, and building emotion regulation skills. Clients learn strategies to manage anxiety, reduce impulsive reactions, and improve communication.

Kennia also draws on acceptance and commitment ideas to help people clarify values and take steps toward meaningful goals. Motivational interviewing informs her work when someone is unsure about change or feels stuck. She describes the therapy space as collaborative and focused on real-world progress.

Sessions can include short coaching-style tasks alongside deeper exploration of family history and patterns. Kennia supports people as they build coping skills, address grief or loss, and work through lingering effects of trauma. Her aim is to help clients gain clearer perspective and more workable ways to handle life’s demands.

Practical approaches for online care

CBT helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. It is often used for anxiety, depression, stress, and coping with cravings or addictive patterns. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying what matters to you and taking committed steps toward those values while learning to notice difficult feelings without getting stuck.

Kennia views finding the right approach as a team effort. She will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then combine methods like CBT, ACT, and motivational interviewing to match those needs. The process is collaborative and adjusts as progress and challenges emerge.

Online sessions can be done by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video calls work well for longer sessions and in-depth work, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat suit brief check-ins or week-to-week skill practice. This flexibility helps people weave therapy into busy lives and keeps momentum between appointments.