Dr. Ana-Rocío Escobar-Chew, LMFT
Compassionate, practical therapy for life transitions
About Ana-Rocío
Dr. Ana-Rocío Escobar-Chew brings a collaborative, strength-based approach to therapy.
Background and approach
She is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 18 years of experience. She speaks English and Spanish and focuses on practical steps to help people move forward.
She uses a mix of approaches to match what each person needs. Sessions often focus on managing stress and anxiety, coping with grief, and navigating relationship and family challenges.
She also helps with trauma and abuse, parenting strain, and intimacy-related concerns. Her style centers on listening first and then building on strengths people already have.
Conversations aim to clarify goals, try small changes, and track what helps. She emphasizes safety and steady progress while addressing issues like abandonment, attachment struggles, and codependency.
Clients can expect help with communication problems, blended family adjustments, divorce and separation issues, and immigration-related stress. She also addresses body image, guilt and shame, caregiver stress, and compassion fatigue.
Practical tools and short-term strategies are used alongside deeper emotional work when needed. Dr.
Escobar-Chew works with people from diverse backgrounds and offers sessions in both English and Spanish. She accepts international clients and provides several online session formats to fit different schedules and needs.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Dr. Escobar-Chew uses Client-Centered Therapy to help people feel heard and understood before moving into change. This approach focuses on empathetic listening and supporting each person's own goals and choices. She also uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) techniques to clarify emotional patterns and strengthen how people connect and respond to one another, which can help with relationship and intimacy-related concerns.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust as needed. This collaborative process helps identify what feels most useful for stress, trauma, family issues, or life transitions.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video works well for deeper conversations that benefit from visual cues. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for brief check-ins, progress notes, or when fitting therapy into a busy day. These options make it easier to connect from different places and schedules while keeping the focus on practical progress and emotional understanding.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English, Spanish