Jenny Lopez

¡Hola! I’m Jenny López, LCSW, IECMHS (she/her/ella), founder of Rooted in Nature Therapy. I’m a bilingual English and Spanish-speaking therapist supporting adults across California, including caregivers, parents, helping professionals, and people navigating demanding seasons of life.

Born in Oaxaca, with Mixteca roots and raised in Southern California, I bring both lived and professional experience to conversations about culture, identity, belonging, relationships, caregiving, and emotional well-being.

As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Infant-Family and Early Childhood Mental Health Specialist, I have extensive experience supporting individuals and families through anxiety, trauma, chronic stress and burnout, life transitions, relationship concerns, and maternal and perinatal mental health challenges.

My work is culturally responsive, relational, strengths-based, and nature-informed. Through Rooted in Nature Therapy, I also integrate ecotherapy, drawing on our relationship with nature as a source of grounding, restoration, perspective, and connection. I offer therapy through telehealth, office-based sessions, and outdoor Walk & Talk sessions, according to season.

My approach to therapy is warm, collaborative, and grounded in curiosity about your whole experience. Rather than focusing only on symptoms, we’ll explore how your emotions, relationships, body, culture, environment, and life experiences may be shaping what you are carrying.

I draw from relational, strengths-based, attachment-informed, mindfulness, and nervous system–supportive practices. Depending on your needs, our work may include reflection, grounding, emotional regulation, storytelling, boundary-setting, and practical tools you can use between sessions.

I also integrate ecotherapy and nature-informed practices, using nature as guía y sostén for grounding, perspective, restoration, and connection. You do not need to be “outdoorsy” for this approach to be meaningful.

My goal is to help you better understand your patterns and needs, strengthen your capacity to navigate stress and relationships, and move toward choices that feel more sustainable, connected, and true to you.

Our first session is a chance to get to know one another and begin building a foundation for our work together. We’ll briefly review confidentiality and practical details, then spend most of our time exploring what brings you to therapy, what has been feeling challenging, and what you would like support with.

I’ll be curious about what you’ve been carrying, your relationships and daily stressors, your cultural and family context, and the strengths and sources of support already present in your life. You do not need to have everything figured out or know exactly where to begin.

You can expect a thoughtful, gentle pace with space to ask questions, reflect, and share without pressure. By the end of our time, we’ll begin identifying what feels most important to focus on and what next steps may be supportive. My hope is that you leave feeling understood, more grounded, and clearer about where we can begin.