Elizabeth Guzman

Elizabeth Guzman provides compassionate, culturally responsive therapy for children, adolescents, young adults, and adults navigating ADHD, anxiety, depression, trauma, life transitions, identity concerns, and family or relationship challenges. She is passionate about helping clients improve their overall well-being while recognizing the important role that culture, family, identity, and lived experience can play in mental health.

Elizabeth strives to create a supportive and nonjudgmental therapeutic environment where clients feel comfortable exploring their experiences, values, beliefs, and sense of self. She believes therapy can be a space not only for healing from difficult experiences, but also for developing greater confidence, purpose, self-worth, and balance in everyday life.

Her clinical approach is individualized and collaborative. Elizabeth incorporates evidence-based practices such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) while also using creative and developmentally appropriate approaches, including Play Therapy and Art Therapy, particularly when working with children and adolescents. She adapts therapy to each client’s age, strengths, needs, and goals rather than relying on a one-size-fits-all approach.

Elizabeth has experience helping clients manage ADHD, anxiety, depression, trauma, emotional challenges, and major life changes. She works with clients to better understand the patterns affecting their daily lives, strengthen coping and emotional regulation skills, improve communication, and develop practical strategies that support greater functioning and well-being.

When working with children and teens, Elizabeth recognizes that emotional and behavioral concerns can be influenced by family relationships, school experiences, identity development, and the environments in which young people are growing. Through play, art, conversation, and skill-building, she helps younger clients express difficult emotions, build confidence, and develop healthier ways of coping with stress.

Elizabeth also has a particular interest in helping clients explore cultural identity, family expectations, traditional gender roles, and intergenerational patterns. Therapy may include examining how expectations around family, gender, relationships, or cultural traditions influence self-esteem, communication, boundaries, and emotional well-being. She creates space for clients to question patterns that may no longer serve them while still honoring the values and relationships that are meaningful to them.

As a first-generation Mexican-American woman, mother, and college graduate, Elizabeth brings a personal understanding of many of the experiences that can affect first-generation and underserved communities. She is deeply committed to supporting Latino, immigrant, and marginalized individuals and families and understands that barriers to mental health care can include language, culture, stigma, access, and concerns about being misunderstood.

Elizabeth provides therapy in both English and Spanish, allowing clients to communicate in the language that feels most natural and comfortable. She values culturally affirming care and works to create a therapeutic relationship where clients feel respected, understood, and able to bring their full identities into the room.

Elizabeth earned her Bachelor’s degree in Child Development from California State University, Long Beach, with a minor in Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies, and later earned her Master’s degree in Social Work from San José State University. Her education and clinical experience support a holistic approach that considers individual development alongside family, cultural, social, and environmental influences.

Whether you are navigating ADHD, anxiety, depression, trauma, identity, family expectations, cultural concerns, or a major life transition, Elizabeth offers a welcoming space to better understand yourself, strengthen your coping skills, and move toward greater confidence, connection, and emotional well-being.