About Silvia
Silvia Hernandez is a California-based therapist with 33 years of experience. She speaks English and Spanish and brings a bicultural perspective to sessions. Silvia focuses on relationship strain, family and parenting challenges, career transitions, and coping with life changes.
She keeps conversations straightforward and respectful. Sessions focus on practical problem solving, clearer communication, and realistic steps you can try between meetings. Silvia adapts plans to each person's situation rather than following one fixed method.
Background and approach
Her work addresses common but painful issues such as abandonment, attachment wounds, and blended family tensions. She also helps people dealing with body image struggles, caregiver stress, codependency, and patterns of control that get in the way of daily life. Silvia supports those navigating divorce, separation, domestic violence aftermath, and family of origin problems.
She often helps people manage guilt, shame, loneliness, and questions about life purpose. The goal is to reduce overwhelm and build clearer choices. Sessions are offered in both English and Spanish.
Silvia frames progress as small, steady steps and encourages practical changes you can use right away. If you want a clinician who listens with cultural awareness and focuses on workable solutions, she offers that steady, responsive approach.
Practical approaches for online relationship and family work
Silvia uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear communication and real-life change. One common approach she uses emphasizes improving how people talk and listen to each other, helping reduce repeated misunderstandings and arguments. This method is useful for relationship strains, blended family tensions, and communication problems.She also draws on approaches that address attachment and abandonment issues by helping clients understand patterns from their past and practice new ways of relating. That work aims to reduce fear-driven reactions and build more stable interactions over time.
Choosing the right method is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to identify what fits their goals, needs, and preferences. Decisions about focus and techniques are revisited as progress unfolds so the plan stays relevant.
Online sessions are available by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines and needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper interaction, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can work well for quick check-ins or brief coping support between appointments. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing work, family, and other responsibilities.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 33 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish