About Autumn
Autumn Altamirano is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and parenting strain. She also supports people facing relationship problems, grief, low self-esteem, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Autumn works in a direct, down-to-earth way that aims to make therapy feel manageable and practical.
She begins by listening to what matters most to the person in front of her. Sessions focus on concrete steps and clearer thinking, not just labels.
Background and approach
Autumn draws on skills from cognitive behavioral work, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing to help people change habits and cope when life feels overwhelming. Her background includes a master’s degree in social work and about a decade of experience across independent practice, outpatient, and school-based settings. That range gives her experience with short-term goals and longer conversations about patterns that repeat over time.
Autumn often uses attachment-informed work to look at how past relationships affect current ones. She combines that with client-centered listening so people set the pace and direction of therapy. The approach is collaborative and rooted in practical tools that can be used between sessions.
People who choose Autumn can expect straightforward talk, clear goal-setting, and techniques they can try right away. She aims to make sessions feel warm and real while keeping the focus on what will help most now.
Approaches you can use online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current reactions and connections. It helps people understand why certain interactions feel triggering and offers ways to shift those patterns in day-to-day life.Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening without judgment and following the person's lead. This approach helps people gain clarity, build self-trust, and set goals that feel authentic to them.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change them. It often suits stress, anxiety, mood concerns, and repetitive thinking patterns like obsessions or panic responses.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to match methods to goals, needs, and preferences rather than imposing a single path. Together they will try strategies and adjust as progress is made.
Online sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for deeper conversation and eye contact. Phone can fit a quick check-in or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging can work for brief check-ins, journaling between sessions, or people who prefer writing. These options help fit therapy into busy lives and make regular follow-up easier.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- Grief
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California, Tennessee
- Languages
- English