Monica Armenta LMFT

My goal as your therapist will be to provide you with a respectful and collaborative therapeutic experience in which we can explore, define, and set the goals you wish to achieve in therapy with awareness, sincerity, and meaningful action that works for you. In sharing your uniqueness with me, we will collaborate to harness your strengths, increase insight, and help you overcome unwanted thoughts and behaviors that no longer serve you.

Although my formation as a clinician is grounded in evidence-based techniques helpful for most people in identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, my orientation as a clinician is based on a psychodynamic family systems approach informed by a humanistic lens. This means I approach my role as a clinician from a relational and trauma-informed lens, respecting and using our experiences as a guide. As a trained clinical art therapist, I often incorporate this creative method to help elicit the expression of latent emotions and thoughts, helping with the exploration and understanding of inner conflicts or feelings that are causing us distress.

My goal as your therapist will be to provide you with a respectful and collaborative therapeutic experience in which we can explore, define, and set the goals you wish to achieve in therapy with awareness, sincerity, and meaningful action that works for you. In sharing your uniqueness with me, we will collaborate to harness your strengths, increase insight, and help you overcome unwanted thoughts and behaviors that no longer serve you.

• California, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, 128356

Although my formation as a clinician is grounded in evidence-based techniques helpful for most people in identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, my orientation as a clinician is based on a psychodynamic family systems approach informed by a humanistic lens. This means I approach my role as a clinician from a relational and trauma-informed lens, respecting and using our experiences as a guide. As a trained clinical art therapist, I often incorporate this creative method to help elicit the expression of latent emotions and thoughts, helping with the exploration and understanding of inner conflicts or feelings that are causing us distress.