About Scarlett
Scarlett Aguilar helps people manage stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and relationship concerns. She also supports those coping with life changes and struggles around motivation and confidence.
Background and approach
Scarlett is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist - LMFT - practicing in California with five years of professional experience. She keeps sessions straightforward and respectful.
Conversations are shaped to fit each person's needs rather than a one-size approach. Scarlett aims to build practical steps clients can use between sessions to handle day-to-day pressures and shifting circumstances.
Her work often focuses on patterns that show up in relationships and self-image. She addresses attachment and abandonment worries, codependency, communication problems, and commitment concerns.
Scarlett also helps people facing body image, guilt and shame, or feelings of emptiness. Sessions may include talking through past experiences that influence current behavior, practicing new ways to communicate, and setting small, achievable goals.
She pays attention to how control issues, dissociation, or dependent personality traits affect functioning and coping. Scarlett treats disclosures of domestic violence and trauma-related reactions with care and attention to safety.
Her approach includes helping people process painful events, rebuild trust in themselves, and find practical coping strategies for recovery. People who contact her can expect a calm, empathetic presence, direct communication, and an emphasis on real-world skills.
She works in English and serves clients located in California.
Practical approaches for online healing
Scarlett draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on real-world change. One approach emphasizes identifying unhelpful patterns in thinking and behavior, then practicing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and lift mood. This helps people tackle day-to-day worries and boost motivation.Another common focus is relationship and attachment work, which looks at how early connection patterns show up in current relationships. Sessions include talking through difficult dynamics, learning clearer communication, and experimenting with new ways of relating to others to reduce conflict and build confidence.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Scarlett will work together with each person to decide which techniques fit best based on their goals, concerns, and what feels manageable. Plans are adjusted over time so the work stays relevant and useful.
Online therapy offers flexibility for different schedules and needs. Video calls let people see facial cues and practice communication in real time. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a focused check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter, frequent check-ins and progress notes without scheduling a full session. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English