About Damaris
Damaris Tobar is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship strain, and the effects of trauma and abuse. She also focuses on women's issues. Her straightforward, warm manner aims to make difficult topics easier to talk about.
She offers short-term coping tools and longer-term strategies. Sessions often include teaching skills to calm strong feelings and to notice unhelpful thinking patterns. She pays attention to how systems and identity shape a person's experience and brings that into conversations when it's relevant.
Background and approach
Damaris keeps the tone honest and approachable. She blends gentle curiosity with clear feedback and sometimes uses humor to build connection. People can expect a space where they are listened to and where practical steps are suggested.
Her work draws on cognitive behavioral ideas and mindfulness practices to help people change patterns and feel steadier day to day. She also uses feminist therapy perspectives and trauma-informed care to address the impact of power, gender, and past harm. Based in California, Damaris provides telehealth sessions across the state.
Her approach is collaborative: together she and the person set goals and pick methods that fit the individual's needs and preferences.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Damaris blends cognitive behavioral ideas with mindfulness practices. Cognitive behavioral methods focus on noticing and changing unhelpful thinking and actions; they help with anxiety, stress, and patterns that feed substance use. Mindfulness practices teach simple attention and breathing skills to reduce reactivity and to feel steadier in the moment.She also brings a trauma-informed lens and feminist perspectives into sessions. Trauma-informed work looks at how past harm affects current reactions and helps people build safety and regulation skills. Feminist perspectives pay attention to power, gender, and social context when setting goals and making sense of problems.
Finding the right mix is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. Over a few sessions she and the client check what helps and adjust the plan together.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper connection. Phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option or a good fit when a quick check-in is needed. Live chat or text-based messaging work well for shorter updates, ongoing support between sessions, or when writing feels more comfortable. These options offer flexibility so people can keep consistent progress while balancing other responsibilities.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English