Daniela Montañez, LMFT, ATR-BC | she/her/hers

Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (#103748) and Board-Certified Art Therapist (17-242)

I’ve helped many clients with anxiety, depression, traumatic experiences, parenting, chronic pain, relationship issues, demanding work environments & self-esteem.

It can be really hard to be kind to ourselves. Especially when we feel like an imposter or a fraud. We often begin to self-sabotage and say really mean things to ourselves. Our confidence goes down and the inner critic starts to work overtime. These feelings and negative thoughts can easily get out of control and leave us feeling really crappy, overwhelmed, or stuck.

Being stuck doesn't mean it's all on you to figure it out on your own. I offer to join you, in whatever you are experiencing, to build a supportive and trusting relationship. Working together we will formulate goals that work for you. Goals that are consistent with your personal beliefs to help you do more of what feels good and less of what doesn't. During our time together I will listen, ask questions, and strive to understand you and your life, without judgment or criticism.

As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Board Certified Art Therapist, I enjoy working with adults, families, children, and adolescents. I have advanced training with grief and loss, medical trauma, chronic pain, cancer, rare diseases, and LGBTQ populations. I’ve led therapy groups for trans and non-binary clients and volunteered with a suicide hotline that specifically serves LGBTQ folks across the entire country.

It can be really difficult to manage stressors, break-ups, job frustrations, life changes, and family dynamics but together we can improve your relationships and navigate a new path. What was right before might not be what is right now. Therapy is a collaborative process, so you will take an active role in shaping the space and putting in the work to change habits, thinking patterns, and other old perspectives that may no longer be serving you. 

People spend lots of time formulating theories and stories about why things happen to us, and around us. We try to make sense of life's events, and seek to identify patterns that connect things.  From simple, every day encounters to life-changing moments, we are constantly trying to make sense of it all. Therapy is a wonderful process to facilitate exploration and meaning making.

Meaning Making: the process of how people understand, or make sense of life events, relationships, and the self.