Services
- Individual
About My Clients
I specialize in working with BIPOC adults who identify as neurodivergent, LGBTQIA+, first generation children of immigrants, and BIPOC parents. I focus on complex trauma, generational trauma, oppression trauma, cultural stress, grief and loss, PTSD,/C-PTSD, perinatal and postpartum mental health, anxiety, neurodiversity affirming, and family conflict.
My Background and Approach
I am dedicated to a client-centered, affirming, inclusive, collaborative, whole-person, and compassionate approach to therapy. My approach blends EMDR Therapy, parts work, polyvagal theory, attachment, and systems perspective. Emphasis is placed on collaboration, cultural humility, and addressing the effects of trauma on your mental health. The focus of therapy is about how racist systems impact your mental health and well-being. My communication style is focused on building rapport, trust, and compassion because therapy requires a collaborative approach to addressing our deepest and most pressing challenges. I want my clients to feel understood. Goal setting is a team effort that requires an open and honest discussion about what you are willing to address in therapy to make the progress you aim to achieve with the goals you have established.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
My name is Angélica Figueroa (ella/she/her). I am Mexican, middle aged, first generation, oldest sibling. I was born in California and raised in Los Angeles. I learned life lessons from my firmly rooted, nurturing, worrisome, Mexican, Walter Mercado and Sábado Gigante loving grandmother. I was raised in poverty by my single mother. I am a first-generation college graduate. I am a sibling, daughter, mother, partner, aunt, friend, cat and dog mom, and a colleague. The violence of racism, misogyny, classism, ableism, homophobia, intellectual elitism, and exclusion have been present throughout my life. All these –isms have tried to discourage me from attaining success in my life but I persevered because of community, resistance, love, curiosity to understand the “why” and healing.