Stress Therapists in Downtown, San Diego, CA

Are you feeling stressed, is past trauma or grief getting in your way? My clients learn skills and make positive changes to flourish and achieve their goals. Are you overwhelmed? Tired of worrying that you’re not good enough? Shame and self-criticism can hinder us from living our best lives. I know how hard it is to find the right help, and how important it is to feel understood. In a warm, safe environment, my clients and I navigate their difficult relationships, feelings and circumstances and find healthy, doable solutions together.

Do you struggle with stress, anxiety, or depression? Do you feel stuck in your life or in your relationships? I can help! We will work together to help build insight, explore healthy strategies to improve your mental health and navigate life adversities. Welcome! I'm a Licensed Clinical Social Worker based in California. I have experience working with children, teens, adults, families, BIPOC, and LGBTQ+ communities across various therapeutic settings.

Here is the thing... Life is REALLY hard. The truth is that our mental health was never intended to maintain itself. It is not a self-tuning machine. How can we expect our complex mental and emotional systems to stay in tip-top shape without attention or care? Not possible. As long as we are living and breathing humans on this earth, preservation of mental and emotional health will be as detrimental to our survival as our physical health. I believe therapy is for anyone who wants to heal or improve those mental and emotional systems. If you want to live, love, think, and feel better... this is where it starts.

Hello! My name is Jennifer J. Sanchez, and I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (993472) in the state of California with 7 years of experience. I am certified in Perinatal Mental Health (PMH-C). I am passionate about maternal mental health and provide support for women and their families struggling with prenatal/postpartum stress/anxiety, role transitions, and infertility. As finding time for therapy may be difficult for mothers, I offer and am available for later evening sessions.

If you're ready for change, or contemplating change, I'm ready to help you achieve it! Together, we can take your biggest challenges and use them as opportunities to thrive. My focus is providing support to individuals, couples, and families in need of healing and positive change. I will provide a compassionate and comfortable space to help you manage and resolve life challenges including binge eating/compulsive overeating, stress, low self-esteem, anxiety, depression, weathering change, anger management, and conflict in relationships!

Ivory Rose Coaching ~ A time to destress and take your life back. I've been coaching clients for personal empowerment over 12 years and am a certified stress management coach. My unique and caring approach uses IMT (introspective meditative techniques) giving clients a sense of calm and inner strength in each session. With my help clients find answers to personal struggles quickly and easily in a very non-judmental supportive environment. Clients learn stress reducing techniques to gain insight to personal issues while promoting deep relaxation to manage situational and daily stress.

Anxiety doesn’t have to be permanent problem, even if you’ve always thought of yourself as an “anxious person.” Anxiety is learned and it can be un-learned. I’d like to help you retrain your brain to be a source of comfort and positivity. With less anxiety, you can direct your energy towards things you really value instead of worrying all the time. There is no more valuable project than your well-being, and it’s well worth the effort. I use research-backed therapy and provide my clients with actionable tools, techniques, and skills to help them make progress.

Coming to the realization that you are facing challenges that cannot be remedied on your own may feel confusing, frightening, and overwhelming. I offer empathy, compassion, and a safe space to explore the connection between your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors and barriers to self-fulfillment. My holistic approach focuses on increasing your overall wellness as you work towards overcoming unhealthy life patterns that have left you feeling stuck and defeated.

Hey there, I'm Melizza Esperanza, a licensed clinical social worker, and I'm all about helping you on your journey towards healing and growth. I commonly work with adults who are feeling stuck, stressed or overwhelmed and don't know why or where to start. I get it, I've been there and you're not alone in this journey. I'm here with an open mind, warm heart, ready to provide compassionate, tailored support. Let's explore together to understand the roots of your experience and find new patterns for healing and empowerment.

Have you tried "everything" to address an eating disorder or disordered eating, battling ongoing stress, anxiety or symptoms of depression, struggling with sleep, focus or life transitions? Sheri offers a unique mind-body-spirit-environment mental health approach for experiential learning and healing and a circular eco-conscious view of wellness. Sheri's authored COPER model can be learned virtually and create changes in your day to day life leading to improvement in all aspects. Sheri has decades of expertise in eating disorders/disordered eating, age-related mental health changes, ecotherapy, earth healing, depression and anxiety.

I have a straight forward, strength-based, humanistic approach to working with my clients. I believe you have inherent strengths and transformational healing abilities no matter how much pain or suffering you may experience. My goal is to support you to discover and harness these abilities to access healing, freedom from suffering, and a deeper inner knowing.

I am a Licensed Marriage and Family therapist providing evidence-based practices. When I'm not in private practice, I'm working at UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences treating children, adolescents, and their families. Living in the Bay Area has many advantages and opportunities that motivate us to become the best, most successful version of ourselves. At times, occupational and social demands can bring overwhelming amounts of stress, pressure, and anxiety. I'm currently focusing my practice for families and couples as well as young professionals and athletes who have experienced trauma and/or high stress.

Hello! My name Is Coryna Nguyen, and I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. My passion and love for this field is seeing the progress, results, and positive changes in my clients. I enjoy working with individuals to support their emotional and mental well-being. I frequently use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, a client-centered therapeutic, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing approach. My approach will be dependent on your needs and goals. I take a client-centered approach to help you work toward achieving your goals and meeting your needs as best as I can with empathy, open-mindedness, and positive support.

I enjoy working with motivated and ambitious couples and individuals who are willing to put in the time and effort that it takes to work on themselves. I believe that starting therapy takes courage; it shows that a person wants more for themselves, their relationship, and their partner. You may have struggled with expressing your needs or advocating for yourself in the past – I can help you to better understand your needs and learn to set boundaries when stress feels unbearable.

I am a licensed clinical psychologist who specialize in anxiety, depression and stress. First, I would like to acknowledge that I am happy you are here to start investing in your mental health because it takes courage to reach out. It is important for me to build report and help you feel comfortable sharing what painful topics, as I believe the therapeutic relationship is one of the most important factors in making therapy successful. I love working with people who are motivated to get new coping skills, who want to suffer less, want greater control over their lives, and are ready to explore deeper meanings of their behaviors.

You want to appear successful & like you have it “all together” but deep down are stressed & struggling with self-esteem, anxiety or coping with what's happened in the past, including difficult life transitions and trauma. You may be fed up with making mistakes and feeling like a failure, leading to being isolated and disappointed. You might not even remember a time things didn’t feel this way.But one thing is for sure: you’re ready for some relief. You’re ready to manage stress effectively. You’re ready to overcome your overwhelming thoughts. Most of all, you’re ready to feel empowered and confident to take on life’s high and lows.

Do you wake up feeling crazy amounts of stress and this nagging thought that no matter what you do, you will never be good enough? As humans we carry stress, pain, trauma, memories and patterns from our family, or jobs, our personal relationships and more in the cells of our bodies. This directly impacts how we feel about ourselves and show up in life. I imagine that what you really want (even more than achieving that milestone or having that next best thing) is to feel safety within yourself...to believe with your whole heart that you are worthy and enough.

Hi there, I'm Darla Griffith and I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 20 years experience working in the areas of anger management, emotional disturbance, stress (including job stress), coping skills, depression, anxiety, mood disorders, and self esteem. I provide services in person but also via telehealth which allows for services anywhere in the state of California.

My goal is to help you live your life fully; no longer feeling bound by the experiences in your past. Our experiences change our brains. Family, relationships and trauma all affect how we perceive ourselves, others and our world. But just as trauma and other negative experiences can create patterns that can lead to anxiety, depression, anger, unhealthy relationships, addictions or underachievement...new experiences can change those patterns. I provide a safe, non-judgmental place to work with your memories, feelings and thoughts in new ways.