Anna Vargas (she/her)

Together we may learn to take a closer look at underlying patterns of behavior and how they impact your life, develop skills for managing difficult thoughts and emotions, explore values and how they are guiding your life choices, discuss relationships and communication, process difficult and overwhelming life experiences and how they impact you presently, and finally practice self-compassion. I use a variety of therapy modalities including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), attachment theory, psychodynamic therapy, emotion-focused therapy (EFT) and mindfulness practices. Pulling from these evidence-based modalities allows me to treat each person individually and wholly.

I believe every person’s story is important and deserves to be seen, heard and understood so the healing process can begin. I believe wholeheartedly in the healing power of the therapeutic relationship and therefore strive to create a warm, non-judgmental and down-to-earth environment for clients to begin sharing their life experiences, expanding self-awareness, shifting perspectives, and letting go of unworkable patterns in order to move in a more meaningful and intentional direction. As the daughter of an immigrant, I have a special interest in the trauma surrounding cultural appropriation and the effects of this experience on children of immigrants. Adult children of immigrants often feel the pressure of high expectations for “success,” guilt for all the sacrifices our parents made, and a sense of “otherness” from having one foot in one culture, one foot in the other, yet belonging to neither.