About Xochitl
Xochitl Perez is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in California with 15 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, depression, and the strain of life changes. Xochitl centers her work on each person’s strengths and choices, offering steady support as people take steps toward change.
She respects that clients know their own stories and builds on what already works for them. Sessions focus on practical strategies to manage panic, mood shifts, and social fears.
Background and approach
Xochitl also addresses attachment concerns, body image, and issues many women face, helping people find clearer ways of coping. Her approach is encouraging and straightforward. She helps clients break overwhelming problems into smaller, doable steps.
Sessions often include problem-solving, emotion regulation, and ways to boost self-love and confidence. Xochitl works with people who want to make lasting changes but feel unsure where to start. She supports goal setting and follows progress at a steady pace.
People leave with concrete skills they can use between sessions. Therapy with Xochitl combines practical tools and personal support. She prioritizes collaboration and respects each person’s pace.
Her goal is to help clients feel more capable and more hopeful about the next steps they take.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online care
Two common evidence-based techniques Xochitl uses are skills-based work and trauma-informed support. Skills-based work teaches concrete tools for managing panic, anxiety, and mood shifts, such as breathing techniques, grounding, and short behavioral experiments. Trauma-informed support focuses on safety and pacing, helping people process difficult experiences at a manageable speed while building coping resources.Another helpful element is a strengths-focused approach that identifies what already helps a person. This approach highlights existing resources and uses them to tackle self-esteem, body image, and relationships to self. Each method targets specific problems while keeping the person's goals central.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk through options, try techniques, and adjust based on how the client responds. Clients and therapist decide together which tools feel most useful and which goals to prioritize.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can fit into a short break or when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, and daily life.
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- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English