Paloma Chavez, LMFT

Paloma Chavez is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 13 years of clinical experience in California. She helps people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, or major life changes. Paloma focuses on practical steps that make daily life feel more manageable.

Paloma uses a mix of approaches to match each person's needs. She draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to spot unhelpful thoughts and change patterns that feed anxiety or low mood. She also uses client-centered methods to build a warm, respectful space where people can speak without judgment.

Mindfulness techniques are part of her toolbox for staying calmer in tense moments and reducing reactivity. When past events still cause pain, Paloma brings trauma-focused and psychodynamic ideas into the work to help people understand how earlier experiences shape current feelings and relationships.

Her practice pays attention to cultural background and immigration-related concerns. She helps with parenting strain, family problems, communication breakdowns, and career stress in ways that consider each person’s history and values.

Sessions are practical and collaborative. Clients can expect concrete coping skills, clearer communication strategies, and time to process difficult emotions. Paloma supports people who want steady, realistic progress rather than quick fixes.

For someone managing anger, compassion fatigue, or identity questions, she offers steady guidance and focused tools. The work is paced to fit each person's life and goals.

Therapeutic approaches that translate well to online care

Paloma commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness therapy in her online practice. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can reduce anxiety and low mood through targeted exercises and homework. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing skills to reduce reactivity and improve emotional regulation in daily life.

She approaches treatment collaboratively. Together the client and therapist will decide which methods fit best based on the person's goals, history, and what works in their day-to-day routine. That process can include trying a strategy for a few sessions and adjusting as needed so the work stays practical and relevant.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video is useful for deeper conversation and nonverbal cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in between meetings, and messaging supports ongoing reflection and brief coaching. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and life transitions while keeping the focus on steady progress and usable skills.