About Paloma
Paloma Chavez is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in California with 13 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, depression, stress, and major life transitions.
Background and approach
Paloma aims to create a warm, respectful space where clients can speak honestly and feel heard. Her background includes work with trauma, grief, relationship concerns, and parenting strain.
She pays attention to how culture, immigration, and family history shape a person’s experience. Paloma also addresses practical problems like money stress, career uncertainty, and communication breakdowns.
In sessions she combines clear, practical tools with deeper reflection. Clients learn coping skills for day-to-day stress and also examine patterns that keep problems returning.
She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking and trauma-focused work to process painful events. Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth.
Paloma listens first, then offers strategies that fit each person’s life. She supports people who feel isolated, overwhelmed, or stuck and helps them make small steps toward feeling better.
Paloma accepts sessions in English and offers several online formats. To begin, a simple matching questionnaire is used to connect people with a therapist and schedule sessions according to availability.
How Paloma’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person’s perspective and building a strong working relationship. In practice this means sessions start with the client’s concerns and pace, and the therapist reflects and guides without directing. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going and teaches concrete skills to change them, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress management.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Paloma will talk with each person about goals and preferences and suggest methods that fit those aims. That decision is collaborative and may shift as progress is made or new issues appear.
Online therapy can make regular care easier to fit into life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a visual connection helps. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be simpler for quick check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief updates or when someone wants to write rather than speak. These options provide flexibility for different schedules and needs, while keeping the focus on practical skills and consistent support.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Depression
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English