Riverside Counseling Services | Individual, Couples and Premarital

Individual and Couples Counseling

INDIVIDUAL COUNSELING

We offer a nurturing and safe space to work through your emotional distress using various holistic approaches to individual counseling such as meditations, visualizations, mind body exercises, art therapy, and journaling. In addition, we have extensive training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Interpersonal Psychotherapy, which are two evidence based therapeutic interventions that have shown to be effective. Our therapeutic approach is grounded in a trauma informed, social justice framework, we are fully aware of how social, political, and economic conditions contribute to the emotional and mental distress in our communities.

Common issues we work with:

Depression & Anxiety
Adjusting to parenthood
Life transitions/changes
Discrimination/racism/oppression
LGBTQI Issues
Relationship Problems
Parenting issues
Job Stress
Loss or grief
Trauma/PTSD
Mother daughter wounds
Self-esteem/Body Image issues

You don't have to struggle alone, let us walk this journey with you……

COUPLES COUNSELING

Couples counseling can help you identify the obstacles that are getting in the way of creating and cultivating a nourishing healthy relationship.

Let us help you...

Discover and learn about your attachment style/love language
Learn how to nurture and still be your own person
Learn to communicate and feel more connected
Re-Build safety and trust after infidelity
Move past old wounds
Build coping skills for problem solving together

PREMARITAL COUNSELING WORKSHOPS (6 sessions)

Premarital Counseling sessions provide you with an opportunity to enrich your relationship before marriage and learn healthy ways to deal with conflict and challenges that inevitably will arise in marriage. It's a valuable opportunity to explore each other's differences, values, hopes and dreams.

Let us help you...

Explore fears about intimacy and commitment
Identify your relationship strengths and growth areas
Build solid communication skills
Resolve conflicts in a loving respectful manner
Strengthen your relationship bond
Explore your relationship and family of origin

EMILIA ORTEGA-JARA

LCSW Owner/Clinical Director

MEET EMILIA

My holistic approach to healing addresses the whole person mind, body, heart, and spirit. I offer a safe space to grieve, feel, and heal. My therapeutic work incorporates various traditional indigenous wisdom, and eastern wellness teachings along with evidence based psychotherapy techniques such as CBT and EMDR. In addition, I bring a social justice framework into my healing practice addressing the historical trauma many have experienced due to the social, cultural, and political inequalities that to this day continue to negatively affect the mental and emotional wellness of families and communities.

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MARU SERRICCHIO

LMFT

MEET MARU

I am a licensed marital and family therapist, board certified art therapist and AAMFT Approved Supervisor. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and growing up in Mexico City, I have a diverse background and use a multi-systemic lens throughout all my professional roles. Currently I am focused on my PhD in International Psychology, with a concentration in Organization and Systems, at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. After working in various community agencies, in Los Angeles and Portland, with children, teenagers and families, in 2013 I began my art therapy private practice. I worked with couples and families experiencing loss and grief, LGBTQI+, Intimate Partner Violence and immigration issues and dynamics. I use mindfulness in my practice as a way to enhance learning, self-care and guide others to meet their full potential.

PRISCILLA RODRIGUEZ

MSW

MEET PRISCILLA

I received my MSW degree from California State University San Bernardino with my specialization being in mental health. I have previous experience working with children and adults in different settings on issues regarding mental health. Taking care of your mental health is extremely important, and I believe everyone should have access to mental health services. Sometimes we may need a little help, and that is okay! I am bilingual in Spanish and English, and offer services in a culturally and linguistically appropriate manner for individuals and families in the Inland Empire.