About Silvia
Silvia Ascencio uses practical, evidence-based techniques to help people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, and low mood. She is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California and brings ten years of clinical experience to each session.
Background and approach
Silvia speaks English and Spanish and aims to make conversations straightforward and useful. Silvia sees therapy as a collaborative process.
She listens to each person’s story and highlights strengths that can be used to overcome current challenges. Sessions focus on small, doable steps that build confidence and reduce overwhelm.
Her work covers common life struggles such as depression, self-esteem problems, and coping with big changes. Silvia also addresses caregiver stress, communication difficulties, and issues related to immigration and isolation.
She has experience with trauma, domestic violence, post-traumatic stress, social anxiety, and concerns that affect veterans and armed forces members. Over a decade of experience has taught her to keep sessions grounded and practical.
She helps people break problems into manageable pieces and develop clear plans to try between meetings. Conversations are aimed at improving everyday functioning and emotional balance.
Silvia offers several ways to meet, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. That flexibility helps people fit sessions around work, caregiving, or other responsibilities.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire is used to schedule an appointment that fits each person’s needs.
How Silvia’s Approaches Work Online
Silvia draws on practical, evidence-based techniques that focus on skills and real-life changes. One common approach teaches emotion regulation and problem-solving skills to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms; it helps people manage stress and respond differently when emotions run high. Another approach centers on trauma-informed strategies that pace work carefully and focus on safety, coping skills, and gradual processing to lessen the hold of past events.Deciding which approach to use is a shared process. The therapist will ask about current struggles, goals, and preferences and then recommend ways of working together. That plan can be adjusted over time based on what feels most helpful and what produces steady progress.
Online therapy with Silvia uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more reachable. Video is useful when visual cues help the conversation. Phone calls work when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text are good for quick check-ins, brief coaching between sessions, or people who express themselves better in writing. These options support flexible scheduling and let people fit therapy into busy lives.
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- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish