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Cynthia Cerrato, LMFT

About Cynthia Cerrato, LMFT

Hi, I’m Cynthia and I’m a BIPOC therapist passionate about creating affirming, compassionate spaces where people feel seen beyond labels, expectations, and survival roles. My approach is rooted in decolonizing mental health care, honoring the lived realities of systemic oppression, intergenerational trauma, identity, culture, and resilience. I believe healing happens in spaces where people are not pathologized for adapting to difficult environments, family systems, or societal pressures.

I work collaboratively with clients to hold space for the complexity of their experiences while supporting growth, self-understanding, and emotional safety. I recognize that mental health does not exist in a vacuum, and I integrate awareness of racism, migration experiences, gender roles, family expectations, and oppressive systems into the therapeutic process. My work is grounded in helping clients reconnect with themselves in ways that feel empowering, culturally affirming, and sustainable.

I specialize in working with anxiety, depression, PTSD, complex PTSD, ADHD, maternal mental health, family conflict, blended family dynamics, and intergenerational trauma. I also support individuals navigating burnout, identity exploration, people-pleasing, emotional overwhelm, and the impacts of chronic stress and survival mode.

As a therapist, I am deeply committed to reducing harm and challenging oppressive systems that disproportionately impact BIPOC communities. I strive to offer a space where clients can show up authentically, unpack inherited narratives, strengthen boundaries, and move toward healing without shame. Whether you are navigating motherhood, relationships, trauma, or life transitions, therapy with me centers your humanity, autonomy, and lived experience.

Cynthia Cerrato, LMFT

Techniques/Modalities

  • Ancestral Healing
  • Breathwork
  • Chicanx Affirmative Therapy
  • DBT Informed Therapy (DBT)
  • Existential
  • Family Systems Therapy
  • Gestalt
  • Holistic Therapy
  • Holistic/Wholistic Healing
  • Humanistic
  • Indigenous Practices
  • Integrative Mental Health
  • Internal Family Systems (IFS)
  • Jungian
  • LGBTQ+ Affirmative
  • Liberation Psychology
  • Maternal Mental Health
  • Psychodynamic

Specialties

  • Abandonment
  • Abuse
  • Acculturation
  • Addictions
  • Alcohol Abuse
  • Anxiety
  • Attention Deficit (ADHD)
  • Autism Spectrum
  • Behavioral Challenges
  • Bipolar Disorder
  • Birth Traumas
  • Blended Families
  • Body Image
  • Burnout
  • Cancer
  • Career Counseling
  • Career Uncertainty
  • Codependency
  • College Students
  • Colonialism and Capitalism
  • Communication Issues
  • Complex PTSD
  • Compulsive Behaviors
  • Control and Impulsivity
  • Couples
  • Cultural Identity
  • Depression
  • Dissociation
  • Dissociative Identity Disorders
  • Divorce and Divorce Adjustment
  • Domestic Abuse
  • Drug Abuse
  • Elders and Seniors
  • Emotional Abuse
  • Entitlement
  • Family Conflict
  • Fertility Issues
  • First Generation
  • Gender Identity
  • Grief & Loss
  • Guilt
  • Highly Sensitive Persons
  • Immigrant Communities
  • Impulse Control
  • Infidelity and Affair Recovery
  • Inner Child Healing
  • Interpersonal Issues
  • Isolation
  • Jealousy
  • LGBTQ+
  • LGBTQ+ Affirmative
  • Machismo
  • Marianismo
  • Marriage Counseling
  • Maternal Mental Health
  • Meditation
  • Mood Disorders
  • Neurodivergence
  • Non-Binary Identities and Experiences
  • Obsessions and Compulsions

Office Details

  • Free Consultation
  • Home-Based Therapy
  • Online Services
  • Sliding Scale
  • Support Animals Allowed

States Licensed In

California

Fees

Fees

200
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Practice Details

Therapist Languages

Hablo Español

Services For

Couples, Family, Individuals

Client Age

Young Adults (18-25)
Adults
Elders (65+)

Location

Los Angeles, California, United States

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