Ivan Arevalo-Fuentes, LMFT — Therapist in California

Hi there, I'm Ivan!

I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who is passionate, dedicated, and motivated to help clients improve their well-being. I have over five years of experience in the mental health field. I consider myself a holistic therapist who is interested in helping clients heal mind, body, and spirit.

My focus

I have specialized working with clients across the lifespan. I have vast experience in individual therapy, dyadic therapy, and family therapy. Some of the experiences I have include working with depression, anxiety, ADHD, trauma, and grief. I am committed to creating healing and meaningful sessions.

My approach

I enjoy creating a safe, supportive, welcoming, personal, and collaborative environment with clients. I am empathetic, challenging, open-minded, supportive, and above all, just a person who cares to walk next to my clients in their healing journey. My approach is to see you for who you truly are without judgment, criticism, or expectations.

My communication style

My communication style varies in regard to where my client is in treatment. I can be warm, empathetic, constructive, direct, personal, challenging, and caring. I usually use humor when appropriate.

My journey to mental healthcare

I encountered many hardships early in life that opened my eyes to how mental health can be impacted. I also realized the need in my community for professionals from different backgrounds and ethnicities who did not judge, criticize, or shame. My love for helping others heal from within has been a motivating factor throughout my career.

My goals for you

I help clients explore and set their own individual treatment goals as I respect and value self-autonomy. We work together little by little to move closer to such set goals. We review and modify goals as treatment advances.

Our first session

Expect a warm, personal, welcoming environment, where my main focus is to understand your needs, challenges, and goals. We will spend time learning about you and what brings you to this healing journey. We will go over treatment, expectations, who I am as a therapist, future sessions, and any questions that you may have.

I identify as...

Male
Hispanic or Latinx

Expertise

Treatment approaches

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)

Psychodynamic

Solution Focused Brief (SFBT)

Attachment-based

Child/Parent Psychotherapy

Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)

Compassion Focused

Humanistic

Internal Family Systems (IFS)

Interpersonal

Mindfulness-Based

Motivational Interviewing

Narrative

Psychoanalytic

Trauma Focused

Trust-Based Relational Intervention

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Therapy types

Couples Therapy
Family Therapy
Individual Therapy

Ages served

Minors
Preteens
Adults

Practice

Accepted insurance providers

Aetna
Allegiance
Allied
Arlo
Ascension-SmartHealth

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Languages spoken

English, Spanish

Education

Master of Science in Psychology from William Jessup University.

Sessions

60 minutes

Virtual sessions

Ivan Arevalo-Fuentes