Carizma Chapman, LMFT — Therapist in California

Hi there, I'm Carizma!

I support professional and executive women to achieve lifestyle, intimacy, relationship, career, health, and life goals. I thoroughly enjoy working with people with diverse identities and backgrounds.

My focus

I work with professional and executive women with diverse and intersecting identities. I have extensive experience with work stress, self-esteem, anxiety, depression, relationship challenges, intimate partner challenges, and other lifestyle issues.

My approach

I tailor my approach to your unique needs, using experiential, attachment, and system therapies to support healing. My work is trauma-informed and mindfulness-based. I focus on the here and now, patterns, emotions, thoughts, sensations, and intuitions that arise, supporting you to acknowledge them, work through them, and reflect on the experience.

My communication style

I hold a warm, therapeutic, inclusive, and safe treatment space. I work to ensure that clients leave every therapeutic encounter feeling seen, heard, a bit more embodied and alive, and appropriately attended. I am an empath. I can easily attune and thus thoughtfully respond to the needs of clients.

My journey to mental healthcare

As a highly intuitive and empathetic child, I found myself attuned to suffering and social inequities. This birthed in me a desire to understand people, support wellness, and combat inequities. Today, my focus is supporting professional and executive women to navigate life commitments and challenges in an anchored, purposeful, and joyful manner.

My goals for you

I partner with you in creating appropriate treatment goals, then cultivate a treatment process that attends to the priorities we outline together.

Our first session

An appropriately paced, attentive, and supportive explorative process centered on building our relationship, my understanding of your treatment and life intentions, and anything else of importance to you.

I identify as...

Female
Black or African American

Expertise

Treatment approaches

Attachment-based

Mindfulness-Based

Acceptance and Commitment (ACT)

Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)

Compassion Focused

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)

Motivational Interviewing

Object Relations

Psychoanalytic

Sex Therapy

Solution Focused Brief (SFBT)

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Focus populations

BIPOC

Body Positivity

Educators

Cancer

First Generation American/Immigrant Parents

Gay

Immune-Disorders

Lesbian

Single Mother

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Therapy types

Individual Therapy

Ages served

Adults

Practice

Accepted insurance providers

Aetna
All Savers
Allegiance
Allied
Anthem

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Languages spoken

English

Education

Doctor of Social Work (DSW) Marriage and Family Therapy from Loma Linda University School of Behavioral Health, a Doctorate in Marital and Family Therapy from Loma Linda University and a Master of Arts (MA) in Marital and Family Therapy from Appalachian State University.

Sessions

60 minutes

Virtual sessions

Carizma Chapman