Kennia Torres
Calm, practical therapy for family concerns
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Format
- Online sessions
About Kennia
Kennia Torres is a licensed marriage and family therapist who uses practical, evidence-based methods to help people manage stress, anxiety, grief, addictions, and parenting challenges. She works in English and Spanish and draws on 14 years of clinical experience. Sessions focus on clear goals and steady steps forward rather than long labels or jargon.
Parents reading on a phone will find straightforward guidance and simple skills to try between sessions.
Background and approach
Kennia favors approaches that teach skills for everyday life. She helps clients notice unhelpful thoughts, try new actions, and practice emotional regulation. Therapy often includes exercises to improve communication, reduce overwhelm, and rebuild trust after loss or separation.
The tone is calm and direct, with room to process feelings without rushing solutions. Her background includes work with trauma, depression, relationship and family concerns, and substance-related problems. She brings Motivational Interviewing to conversations about change and relapse prevention.
She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to challenge patterns that keep people stuck and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and guide action. Sessions may address caregiver stress, codependency, commitment and control issues, and problems that come from family of origin dynamics. Kennia helps clients find small, manageable steps toward better routines and healthier connections.
Practical coping tools and clearer communication are common outcomes of her work. Clients can expect a collaborative atmosphere where their priorities set the agenda. Kennia explains skills in plain language, offers real-world practice, and checks progress regularly.
Her practice operates in California and she holds the credential LMFT, CA LMFT 126021.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people name what matters to them and take small steps toward those values even when feelings are strong. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on noticing and testing unhelpful thoughts and trying new behaviors to reduce symptoms like worry and low mood. CBT works well for stress, anxiety, and managing daily habits.Kennia views finding the right approach as a team effort. She will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then adapt methods to fit those needs. That collaborative process helps decide whether ACT, CBT, or elements of Motivational Interviewing or Dialectical Behavior Therapy should be emphasized in sessions.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging offers flexibility for busy families and caregivers. These formats make it easier to practice skills between sessions and to check in when life gets hectic. The different options let people pick what fits their schedule and comfort while keeping a steady course toward the goals they set with the therapist.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
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.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
Next step
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