About Viridiana
Viridiana Castro is a licensed marriage and family therapist who practices in California. She draws on seven years of clinical experience to help people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship challenges. Sessions are offered in English and Spanish.
She focuses on trauma and abuse, addiction concerns, and issues around self-esteem and motivation. She also supports people navigating parenting strain, grief, intimacy-related worries, and major life changes. Viridiana addresses a wide range of family-related concerns such as attachment issues, adoption and foster care topics, blended family stress, and fatherhood questions.
How Viridiana works
Her style centers on respectful, compassionate conversation that adapts to each person's needs. She works with clients to build practical coping skills for anxiety, manage difficult emotions after loss, and improve communication habits. Conversations are tailored so goals are clear and progress is measurable.
Viridiana helps people facing difficult endings and transitions, including divorce, separation, and forgiveness work. She also supports those dealing with substance use and recovery challenges, domestic violence histories, and the lingering effects of abandonment or family-of-origin problems. Career pressures and compassion fatigue are part of her clinical scope as well.
Clients can expect collaborative planning and straightforward talk about next steps. The therapist emphasizes strength-building, clearer boundaries, and making manageable changes over time. To begin, people choose a session format and set goals that fit their daily life.
What Viridiana works with
The areas below are the ones Viridiana selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Two common evidence-based techniques she uses include trauma-informed work and skills-based therapy. Trauma-informed work focuses on understanding how past harm affects current feelings and relationships, and it helps people find ways to feel safer and more grounded. Skills-based therapy teaches practical tools for managing anxiety, improving mood, and handling strong emotions in day-to-day life.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist collaborates with each person to decide which techniques fit their goals, preferences, and current situation. Together they set clear goals and adjust methods as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people have fuller conversation and visual connection, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, on-the-go support, or when writing feels more comfortable than talking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and keep continuity between sessions.
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