Luz Guevara, LCSW

Luz Guevara is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in California with eight years of experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, and coping with life changes, among other concerns. Luz offers services in English and Spanish and works with people who are navigating difficult emotional experiences.

She approaches trauma from a trauma-informed perspective and uses knowledge from cognitive neuroscience to guide sessions. That means she explains common trauma responses and helps people recognize how their body and mind react to past events. Sessions include practical steps to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors that keep daily life difficult.

Luz uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques to notice and change thought patterns that feed anxiety or low mood. She also draws on Client-Centered Therapy to listen and prioritize the person’s goals. For processing traumatic memories, she includes elements of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing when appropriate.

Work in sessions tends to be collaborative and concrete. Luz helps people identify where self-criticism comes from and tests whether those beliefs match present reality. She also addresses co-occurring issues such as grief, relationship strain, parenting stress, workplace problems, and symptoms often linked with trauma.

Practical concerns like guilt, shame, isolation, and caregiving stress are part of her focus areas. The approach aims to reduce overwhelming reactions and build manageable responses people can use day to day. To begin, prospective clients follow the site steps to match and schedule an initial appointment.

How therapeutic approaches are used in online sessions