The Climb Counseling
Therapy for the parts of you that are tired of performing okay.
Everything I offer is built around one idea: that you are not a problem to be fixed. You’re a person carrying things — some chosen, most not — and therapy is the place where we figure out what to do with all of it.
All sessions are virtual. I’m licensed in California, Colorado, and Connecticut.
Generational & Family Trauma
The patterns, fears, wounds, and rules that were handed down through your family — often without words. We’ll untangle what was yours to carry and what was placed on you by systems much bigger than your family. This includes parent-teen dynamics, immigrant family stress, and the legacy of survival mode.
Fat Joy & Body Liberation
Not weight loss. Not “loving your body” as a performance. Actual liberation from the mental and emotional energy you’ve spent fighting your body. We’ll work from a fat-affirming, anti-diet framework that rejects the idea that your body needs to be different for your life to begin.
Burnout, Rest Guilt & Cycle Breaking
If you can’t stop even when you’re exhausted, that’s not a character flaw — it’s what hustle culture, survival mode, and first-gen pressure do to people. We’ll explore what’s underneath the burnout and build something more sustainable.
Latine & Queer Identity
Navigating your culture, your queerness, the expectations of family, and the spaces that don’t fully see you. You don’t have to leave any part of yourself at the door here. This includes intersecting identities, code-switching fatigue, chosen family, and the grief of not being fully understood by the people you love.
BIPOC & First-Gen Mental Health
You’re the first to do a lot of things. The first to go to college. The first to go to therapy. The first to say “I need help” out loud. That’s not a small thing, and the specific pressures that come with it — imposter syndrome, hyper-responsibility, the weight of representing — are real and worth taking seriously.
Anxiety, Avoidance & Fear
The kind that shows up as procrastination, people-pleasing, shutting down, or staying so busy you never have to sit with anything. We’ll work on what’s underneath it, not just the symptoms.
Body Image & Self-Esteem
Related to but distinct from fat liberation work: the internal experience of not feeling like enough, the negative self-talk, the way shame shows up in how you move through the world. This is healing work that goes all the way down.
Depression & Negative Self-Talk
The kind of depression that whispers that you don’t deserve rest, care, or good things. We’ll challenge those narratives — gently, and from a place of genuine curiosity about where they came from.
Neurodivergent Experience
You’ve probably spent a lot of your life being told you think wrong, feel too much, or need to try harder. Therapy with me is a space where your brain gets to be your brain, and we figure out how to work with it rather than against it.
Gaming & Anime-Informed Sessions
If the worlds you inhabit in games and anime are part of how you understand yourself, make meaning, or process hard things — they’re welcome here. This isn’t a gimmick. It’s a genuine therapeutic bridge for people who’ve found community, identity, and even healing in those spaces.
