Ana is a Clinical Social Worker who specializes in providing bilingual evidenced-based outpatient mental health services to children and families. Ana has over 15 years of behavioral and therapeutic experience with community mental health and private practice settings.

Ana is passionate about supporting healing and wellbeing on an individual and collective level and is deeply inspired by the resiliency of the human spirit and the power of community in nourishing the potential for personal and systemic transformation. Ana takes a present-centered and person-centered approach, utilizing techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Ana utilizes evidence-based treatments for trauma including Trauma Focus Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Processing Therapy, and Skills Training in Affective and Interpersonal Regulation.

Ana also serves as a consultant, trainer, and curriculum developer for the DMH-UCLA Prevention Center of Excellence and UCLA-UCSF ACEs Aware Family Resilience Network. As a trauma-informed trainer and curriculum developer, she focuses on building and disseminating curricula for health professionals and other audiences to understand, address, and prevent the health impacts of toxic stress, as well as elevating protective factors, strengths, and resilience across all networks of care in California.