Dr. Ana-Rocío Escobar-Chew
Calm, practical help for family and parenting challenges
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed in
- Michigan
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Format
- Online sessions
About Ana-Rocío
Dr. Ana-Rocío Escobar-Chew blends practical, relationship-focused methods to help families and parents find clearer ways forward. She is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 18 years of experience and offers services in both English and Spanish.
Her style is collaborative and strength-based, so sessions aim to build on what already works while addressing what feels stuck. She frequently addresses stress and anxiety, relationship and family conflict, trauma and abuse, parenting concerns, and grief.
Background and approach
Dr. Escobar-Chew also works with issues such as attachment and blended family challenges, adoption and foster care matters, and communication or caregiving stress. These topics are woven into sessions in ways that feel relevant to each person’s life.
Her treatment approach draws on client-centered and emotionally focused methods alongside tools from the Gottman Method and solution-focused therapy. That means conversations center on understanding emotions, improving connection, and setting small, actionable steps between sessions. She frames therapy as a team effort where goals are practical and measurable.
Clients can expect clear, respectful conversation that balances empathy with direction. Sessions prioritize safety and steady progress while honoring each person’s strengths. Dr.
Escobar-Chew aims to help people reduce distress and build routines that support healthier interactions at home. Her Michigan license is MI LMFT 4101006607. She accepts international clients and offers flexible formats such as video calls, phone, live chat, and text messaging to fit different needs.
Approaches for families and parents in online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and meeting people where they are; the therapist follows the client's lead, reflects feelings, and helps clients clarify what matters most. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) looks at how partners and family members respond to emotion - it helps people identify patterns, come to feel safer with each other, and repair distance or mistrust. The Gottman Method provides concrete communication tools and exercises to improve interaction and reduce conflict in relationships.Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose approaches that match the goals, preferences, and specific family dynamics. That might mean focusing on emotions in one phase and then using solution-focused steps to practice new habits between sessions.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to attend sessions from home, juggle parenting schedules, and keep therapy consistent during busy weeks. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises and homework for remote formats so progress continues even when in-person options are not possible.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.
Existential Therapy
Takes the larger questions seriously: meaning, choice, mortality, responsibility. Suited to periods when the difficulty is less a symptom than a sense that something has to change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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