Hello
My name is Maria Tina Ferraris-Castro. I'm an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist. I'm supervised by Shanda Brennan, LCSW. You can call me Tina for short. As you can tell from my name, I come from a mixed heritage of Filipino, Chinese, Spanish, and Italian. I am fluent in three Filipino dialects such as Tagalog, Cebuano, and Illongo. I was born in the Philippines and grew up in New York. As a Filipino American therapist, I want to provide a safe place for my clients who may be struggling with acculturation, generational trauma, and have difficulty feeling understood due to cultural differences and language barrier.
Maria Tina Ferraris-Castro, MA, AMFT
CA AMFT #146413
Associate Marriage and Family Therapist
When you come to me for therapy, I want you to feel seen, heard, and understood. I want you to have a safe place where you can be yourself and feel accepted for who you are. I want you to feel at home. I am here to help you heal and empower you towards your goals. I love working with women of all ages. I specialized in anxiety, depression, multi-generational trauma, and life stresses. I like to incorporate different modalities depending on my client's needs. The modalities that I mostly utilized are CBT and Solution Focused Brief Therapy.
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I see my clients as a whole influenced by the different aspects of their lives such as marriage, work, children, family, culture, and society. I'd love to help my clients heal one session at a time.