Paloma Chavez, LMFT - Therapist in California

About Paloma

Paloma Chavez is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 13 years of experience in California. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and major life changes. Parents and adults often turn to her for guidance with parenting challenges, relationship strain, and grief.

She also addresses burnout and compassion fatigue. Paloma focuses on creating a calm, non-judgmental space. She listens first and helps clients name what feels most urgent.

Sessions tend to emphasize practical skills and clearer communication.

Background and approach

Her work also attends to cultural background and how it shapes each person’s experience. Her clinical toolbox includes talk-based methods and structured exercises. She uses client-centered techniques to follow each person’s pace.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people change unhelpful thoughts and habits. Trauma-focused methods support recovery after painful events. Clients can expect a collaborative process.

Paloma and the client set goals together and track progress. She offers straightforward tools for coping, emotion regulation, and problem solving. Over time the aim is more confidence managing daily stressors.

Paloma also brings experience with adoption and foster care, immigration concerns, and family-of-origin issues. She works on communication problems, forgiveness, and practical matters like money and career stress. Her approach balances empathy with concrete steps toward change.

Therapeutic approaches and online care

Paloma uses Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy as core parts of her online work. Client-Centered Therapy means she follows the client’s lead, offers empathic listening, and helps people name what matters most. This approach is useful when someone needs a safe, steady place to sort feelings and priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying new behaviors. It is practical for anxiety, depression, and day-to-day stress because it offers clear strategies to change patterns.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Paloma will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. She adapts methods as needed, combining listening with skills training so clients feel both heard and equipped to cope.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. These options let people fit therapy around busy schedules, parenting duties, or work. The variety of formats makes it easier to keep consistent sessions and to use brief check-ins or longer conversations depending on need.

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.

Mindfulness Therapy

Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does Paloma address?

Paloma works with stress, anxiety, anger, depression, grief, parenting challenges, and relationship and family problems. She also addresses trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, and career or financial stress.

What is her therapeutic style like?

Her style is warm and practical. She listens, helps set goals, and teaches skills like thought restructuring and emotion regulation.

How long has she been practicing?

She has 13 years of clinical experience providing therapy in California.

What credentials and region are listed?

She is licensed as an LMFT with the California license number CA LMFT 92507 and practices in California.

Which languages are sessions offered in?

Sessions are offered in English.

Can people outside the United States work with her?

She accepts international clients.

What session formats are available?

Therapy can be done via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.

How are costs and scheduling handled?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To start, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule based on therapist availability.

Specialties and expertise

Top specialties

Stress, Anxiety
Anger management
Depression

Also works with

Therapeutic approaches

Experience: 13 years
Licensed: California
Languages: English

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