About Guadalupe
Guadalupe Rios is a licensed clinical social worker in California with 25 years of experience helping people through addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting challenges, and depression. She speaks English and Spanish and aims to make conversations straightforward and understandable for worried parents and caretakers. Guadalupe creates a calm space for people to talk about painful experiences.
She listens without judgment and helps identify small, practical steps to move forward.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on real problems and the changes a person wants to see in daily life. Her work blends talking and skills practice. She draws on approaches that help people notice unhelpful patterns, build trust in relationships, and try new ways of coping.
The emphasis is on what feels useful for each person rather than on labels or tests. Guadalupe has worked across many settings over her career and has supported people dealing with issues tied to aging, first responder stress, HIV and AIDS, end-of-life concerns, immigration, veteran matters, multicultural stress, postpartum mood changes, prejudice, and process addictions.
That range informs a practical, flexible way of working. Sessions can include short-term focused work or longer conversations depending on need. She encourages clients to set goals together and to adjust the work as those goals change.
The overall aim is to help people feel steadier and more able to handle everyday demands.
Online therapy approaches that focus on real-life coping
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It encourages choosing actions that match personal values, which can be helpful for depression, grief, and patterns tied to addiction.Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how relationships shape how someone feels and relates to others. It helps people understand and improve patterns in close relationships, which can reduce anxiety and help with trauma recovery.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Guadalupe collaborates with each person to see what feels most helpful and adjusts methods as goals change. She treats therapy as a team effort where the client’s preferences guide the plan.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video works well for focused conversations and skills practice, phone calls are useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows quicker check-ins, and text messaging can help maintain momentum between sessions. These options make it easier to keep regular contact and to fit therapy into a busy schedule.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Depression
- First responder issues
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish