I invite you to read the services I offer, I am sure you will find what you are looking for. You can also find testimonies about the families and people that I have had the good fortune to accompany.

Feel free to contact me with any questions about the services I offer.

Mariana Valdez

Hello, welcome to this space created for you.

About me:

Over the past years I have focused on psychotherapeutic care for children and adults. I have been able to help people in all different stages of life with finding closure, overcoming struggles and other difficult situations.

I have seen how therapeutic support can provide individuals with new emotional tools so they feel more comfortable with their place in the world. I have been able to do this with different kinds of therapy meant to help those facing situations that trigger behaviors or feelings that they seek to move past.

I will be by your side to help you recognize your emotions, and work with you until you develop the emotional and cognitive resources that can help you to solve situations decisively.

My work with children is always focused on their positive growth. I love being a part of the developmental process, which includes working alongside parents. This kind of cooperation helps parents learn to recognize their child’s needs and develop the skills to be there for them in any circumstance.

I will work with you at every step in order to promote positive parenting and help you create a healthy bond with your child through games and other, specific strategies according to the needs of your family.

My Studies:

  • Four-year degree in psychology

  • Two-year degree in Special Education

  • Two-year degree in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

  • Art therapy specialist

Certifications:

  • Detection and intervention in language disorders

  • Neurosciences applied to the classroom

  • Inclusive Education

  • Yoga for children

  • Child Therapy

  • Early stimulation from 0 to 3 years

  • Cognitive behavioral therapy

  • Family therapy

  • Certification in contextual therapies

  • Grief Counseling

  • Couples therapy by the Gottman Institute

  • Schema Therapy (CBT)

My Services.

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Individual therapy:

Adolescents and adults

This method helps develop a therapeutic process, allowing you to generate functional and specific strategies according to your needs, your history, preferences and goals. What would you like to achieve? What goals do you have? What are those habits that you would like to change to be the best version of yourself? We all seek to feel complete. Taking this step allows you to open that first door, and I will be there to help guide you through it.

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A fun, healing and different kind therapy. Each experience is an opportunity to create unique products. You are the artist, and you decide what shape you want your art to take.

I will be by your side to help you to come to terms with important experiences in your life as you develop emotional and cognitive tools. This process also helps individuals develop appropriate solutions for different situations.

Individual art therapy:

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Child psychotherapy:

This service is helpful if your child displays challenging behavior such as frequent tantrums or anxiety and difficulty dealing with new or uncomfortable situations. It will also provide parents with different useful skills for them to be able to support their kids.

With this service I support you ond finding and creating your own positive parenting skills by using different strategies that will helping you to recognize the needs of your child and respond to them in productive ways.

This service is for parents that realize they do not know how to handle certain situations or find themselves repeating negative behaviors that they experienced with their parents, which they know are not suitable for conflict resolution.

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Parenting solutions

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Age: 45 days to one year and a half.

Through massages and yoga-inspired movement exercises, you will create a special and unique bond with your baby. You can start this process from the first month and a half of your baby’s life. It will help you learn to "read" the needs of your child and together you will grow into a harmony full of trust and love. Your child will develop cognitive strategies that promote a longer attention span, self-regulation and knowledge of their body.

Early stimulation & positive bonding

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Through yoga-inspired movements, language and cognitive exercises, you will create a special and unique bond with your baby and also helping to recognize and develope his/her emotional skils. Your child will develop cognitive strategies that promote a longer attention span, self-regulation and knowledge of their body.

Movement & positive bonding

Age: One year and a half to three years.

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This service is useful if you have noticed language difficulties in your child or detect any of the following experiences: they speak very little; they only say the last syllable of words; they do not seem to be interested in interacting with other children; they take you by the hand to let you know where you want to go, or just point your finger instead of trying to articulate their desires.

Each session is made specifically for the needs of your child and the activities are designed to prolong attention span, work on sensory integration, expand vocabulary, and stimulate oralization through play.

Speech development guidance

Online services:

  • Individual psychotherapy for adolescents and adults.

  • Individual art psychotherapy.

  • Parenting solutions.

  • Early stimulation and Positive bonding.

  • Movement and Positive bonding

Testimonials

Online Therapy

“I am very grateful for my therapeutic process. It was a beautiful investment of my time that helped me to be more aware in life. I have healed many childhood wounds that limited me in my adult life. Today I know myself better, I can better identify my feelings and it is easier to find a solution to complicated situations.

I have noticed many changes not only in myself, but also in the people around me. I am happier, stronger, more authentic and more confident!”

- Gaby

“Mariana is an incredible professional, she helped me regain confidence and see life in a positive way where I can generate goals and reach them without putting pressure on myself. She helped me overcome anxiety attacks and look from a more objective perspective where I can now recognize my achievements. The tasks she gave me helped me a lot and her empathy is appreciated at all times of the process, I highly recommend her.”

- Michelle

“She is a very professional person, she helped me a lot with personal and job issues, sharing various techniques to apply in any aspect of my life. She helped me rediscover myself.”

- Jessi

“When I came to Mariana for therapy, I was overwhelmed in many aspects and felt like I had no tools to move forward. The process with Mariana helped me recognize my own tools and gain new ones. It was an extremely kind, patient, and loving process. Mariana was always very accurate in her comments and questions, and she even helped me celebrate progress that I myself was unable to appreciate.

Even now, after a year of therapy with her, I feel calmer in situations that would have paralyzed me with stress before, and even when I begin to feel that life is overwhelming me, everything I experienced in my therapeutic process with Mariana continues like a voice in my head that helps me see things from another perspective and helps me become aware of my capabilities.

I have not yet had the feeling of wanting to return to therapy, but I am sure that if I need to, I can count on a safe space and the necessary help to move forward”.

- Montse

“Starting therapy with Mariana has helped me find the tools I needed to be able to acknowledge and recognize all the emotions and strengths that exist in me and with that, face situations that I am not prepared for, and yet, feel confident to face them. I recognize that I cannot control the situation but I can control how I feel and act in that situation. Thank you Mariana. 100 percent recommended ☺️!”.

- Andrea

“The main reason I started the therapeutic process is because I was a depressed person; I was having a hard time in a foreign country. So, in my search for help I met Mariana, and she had a positive impact on my life, gradually I felt better. She helped me with this problem, but other aspects of my life also improved.

Thanks to the therapy I took with Mariana, my mood improved for the better thanks to the tools I learned in the process and that I have incorporated into my daily life. Among the things I liked the most was learning to recognize my emotions, feel them, validate them and express them. The same with my needs, negotiation with oneself, among other things. In summary I would say that from the therapeutic process my life has found more tranquility.

I learned about the management of my emotions and needs, but as a consequence of the process I would also say that I am a more resilient person. Another learned skill is assertive communication, the management of irrational thoughts. If I could tell my past self something, it would be to trust the process and be patient, as it takes time to discover and get to know itself. Now things seem to make more sense and are clearer. I have answered some questions and I have come up with new ones and, consequently, new answers”.

- Javier

“I am grateful that Mariana is part of my support network :’). Her technique is simply very appropriate for all of us who seek to learn what is necessary to be able to truly feel and live in the present.”

- Itzel

Early stimulation & positive bonding

“We started working with Mariana when my son was 40 days old and from the beginning I realized that my son really enjoyed the classes. We were working with Mariana on our son’s motor development and the results were seen by the time our son was 4 months old: he was curious about sitting up, and before 6 months he was already beginning to crawl.

Mariana always showed a lot of enthusiasm during the classes, she always taught them in a very fun and professional way. My husband and I were very satisfied with the treatment we got working with Mariana and we are very happy to know that we contributed to his development in a fun and healthy way.”

Guillen Alvarado Family

Speech Development Guidance

“We met Mariana after she was recommended to us by the pediatrician. We went to a consultation so that Mariana could assess whether our son had a speech deficit. We previously had consulted with other specialists and they told us that we should wait, so we decided to continue looking until we met Mariana, since at two-and-a-half years old our son was not able to speak and also did not socialize.

Through the consultations we were able to know that the problem that our son had was because of parenting methods, attachment to mom, as well as the uncontrolled use of electronic devices. Thanks to the sessions with Mariana and the planned activities as well as the participation of each member of our family, our son has made great progress.

Today he socializes, he is expressive, and is able to regulate himself. He is also following instructions and is beginning to have fluency in speech”.

Andrade Ramírez Family

“We started going with Mariana because our three-year-old son didn't say any words. Thanks to the therapy that he has taken, he says a few words and repeats others in syllables.

We are very happy with the therapy, it is incredible. Mariana treats our son very well and she is very professional. Apart from the advances we were looking for (which was for him to speak), he has had other very important successes such as now having more self-control and he can already tolerate any texture without feeling desperation”.

Hernández Carrera Family.