Holistic Life Balancing
Helping individuals and families bring balance to their world.
About Me
Trauma-Informed Care Counselor
I began my career as a special educator and found a draw to mental health at a time when mental health services for youth were limited. I have served children and their families for over two decades, helping them find some footing and balance in an ever-evolving and sometimes confusing world.
I come from an existential foundation that focuses on helping people find meaningful ways to tackle the difficulties they are facing and find purpose and meaning to help them live an authentic life.
As a Chicana, I value the importance of culture and identity as well as the beauty of community and family, however family may present. Decolonizing perspectives and trauma-informed care are how I create inclusive and safe spaces for clients to share and heal. I meet clients where they are and embrace their strengths and histories to honor and support them.
HLB Services
Vivian provides therapy and coaching sessions both in person and through telehealth.
Individual Counseling
HLB offers individual counseling in person and through telehealth for clients from birth through elder years.
Couples and Family Counseling
HLB provides in person and telehealth couples and family counseling sessions
Life Coaching
HLB provided life coaching for children, adults, couples, and families. This includes premarital coaching.
Vivian is available for a 15 minute phone consultation to see if Holistic Life Balancing can help you reach your goals.
Vivian’s Specialties
Autism Spectrum Disorder
As a neurodivergent counselor, Vivian also holds over two decades of experience working within the Autsim community with both children and adults. Vivian embraces somatic experiences and sensory sensitive support.
Culturally Sensative Therapy
As a decolonizing therapist Vivian is constantly adapting and working to change the current system that too often invalidates the systemic racism, ableism, and classism that impacts the care our current mental health system provides. The work and success of healing should not be a burden of the client alone. The system must be rebuilt as well.
Attachment
Vivian works with families and couples to help individuals learn to build and rebuild trust and strengthen relationships. This includes trauma-focused therapy and internal family systems therapy.
LGBTQA+
As a member of the community, Vivian creates a safe space for clients and has extensive experience working with those beginning their journey towards embracing their authentic life. Vivian offers gender affirming surgery assessments.
Early Childhood Mental Health
Vivian has worked with children and families both as a special educator and counselor. This affords clients support in prenatal planning, pregnancy, and post partum support.
Vivian provides play therapy and other non-verbal therapeutic means to support young clients as well as non-verbal clients.
Vivian holds experience working with parents of children with disabilities and the importance of individualized care.
Youth
Vivian’s experience includes emotional and behavioral disorders including ADHD, oppositional, defiant and conduct disorders. Vivian also has extensive experience supporting clients with anxiety and depression including suicidality and self harm.
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
– Viktor Frankl