Richard Salgado

You may be the person who keeps showing up for everyone else while quietly wondering how much longer you can keep carrying everything yourself. Anxiety can keep your mind constantly running, family or relationship stress can leave you feeling disconnected from the people you care about, and trauma or cultural expectations may influence how comfortable you feel expressing what you need. I work with adults, adolescents, and children experiencing anxiety, family issues, relationship issues, trauma, and men’s issues. These experiences can also overlap with ADHD, depression, stress management, anger, grief or loss, cultural and ethnic concerns, or major life transitions, especially when several parts of your life and identity are affecting one another. Therapy can give you a place where you do not have to perform, minimize what you are feeling, or figure everything out alone. Together, we can understand what has been weighing on you, strengthen healthier ways of coping and communicating, and help you move forward with greater clarity and confidence.

Our work will make room for both the person you are and the family, relationships, culture, identity, and experiences that have shaped you. We’ll explore how anxiety, family issues, relationship issues, trauma, and men’s issues may be affecting your emotional wellbeing and the way you connect with yourself and others. I may use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help you recognize patterns in thoughts and behaviors that contribute to distress and develop healthier ways of responding, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help you navigate difficult thoughts and emotions while staying connected to your values, and Internal Family Systems to help you understand different parts of yourself with greater curiosity and compassion. Motivational Interviewing can help you explore change without pressure, while Solution Focused Brief Therapy can help us identify your existing strengths and turn the changes you want into practical steps. I may also draw from Family Systems approaches to better understand how family roles and relationship patterns influence what you are experiencing. Our sessions will be collaborative, culturally responsive, and grounded in the reality of your life rather than expecting you to fit into a predetermined version of therapy.

You do not need to have the right words for everything you are experiencing before coming to therapy. During our first few sessions, we will take time to understand what brought you here, what has been most difficult, and what you hope will feel different. Together, we will develop goals that feel meaningful and realistic and decide where it makes the most sense to begin. You can expect me to bring warmth, openness, and thoughtful guidance to our conversations while creating a space where you can talk honestly about relationships, family, identity, trauma, or difficult emotions without judgment. Progress may look like feeling less consumed by anxiety, communicating more effectively with the people you care about, developing healthier boundaries, understanding how past experiences continue to affect you, or feeling more confident expressing what you need. We will continue checking in on your goals and shape our work around what helps you feel more grounded, supported, and connected to yourself.