Belen Barragan, LMFT

Belen speaks English and Spanish and works with people in California. Belen emphasizes that clients know their own story and brings a focus on connection and practical skills.

Sessions often include talking through difficult moments, identifying unhelpful patterns, and trying concrete strategies to reduce anxiety or low mood. She combines approaches that look at relationships, emotions, and thoughts to meet practical goals.

Her background spans 13 years of clinical experience supporting people through relationship and family strain, adoption and foster care concerns, attachment issues, and separation or divorce. She has worked with those facing panic attacks, mood disorders, postpartum depression, social anxiety, and stress related to life transitions.

Belen draws on Attachment-Based methods to look at how relationships shape feelings and behavior. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people test thoughts and change patterns that keep problems going.

Trauma-focused tools are used when past traumatic events are part of the story. People can expect a collaborative style that centers their strengths.

The first sessions focus on understanding what matters most to the client and setting small, achievable steps. Belen aims to make progress feel manageable and realistic.