About Bertha
Bertha Banuelos is a California-based licensed clinical social worker who helps people navigate family stress, parenting challenges, and major life changes. She focuses on practical supports for compassion fatigue and common concerns linked to family life and women's health. Her bilingual skills in English and Spanish help her connect with clients from diverse backgrounds.
Bertha centers conversations on everyday concerns like communication problems, body image, and feelings of guilt or shame.
Background and approach
She listens for patterns that come from family of origin and helps people find clearer ways to set boundaries and ask for what they need. Sessions are aimed at small, manageable shifts rather than big leaps overnight. She also addresses eating and food-related worries, hoarding behaviors, and the emotional impact of pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum depression.
Immigration stress and multicultural concerns are part of her practice, with attention to cultural context and practical coping. Her style is straightforward and culturally aware. With four years of experience, Bertha brings focused work to each session and helps clients build tools they can use between meetings.
She explains steps and options in simple terms and checks in about what is most helpful. Her approach blends practical problem-solving with emotional support. Bertha works with people who want to improve family relationships, recover from overwhelm, or adjust to new roles.
She aims to help clients feel more confident in daily life and better able to manage expectations and responsibilities.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Bertha uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide sessions in clear, practical ways. One common approach helps people identify unhelpful patterns coming from family of origin and practice new communication and boundary skills; this is useful for family problems and codependency. Another approach focuses on managing mood and stress after childbirth and during parenting transitions, offering step-by-step coping tools for postpartum depression and compassion fatigue.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Bertha works with each person to see what feels most useful, adjusting methods to match goals and cultural context. Clients and therapist decide together which techniques to try and how to measure progress over time.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is good for face-to-face work and visual cues, while phone sessions use less data and can fit a break during the day. Live chat or text can work for shorter check-ins, quick skill practice, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep continuity when schedules change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Coping with life changes
Also works with
- Body image
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish