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Nadia Gonzales
LCSW, CLE
Accepting New Clients
Yes
Locations Served
California
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USA
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Languages
Spanish
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English
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About Nadia Gonzales

Nadia Gonzales is a licensed clinical social worker specializing in maternal mental health and relational work, holding a Master’s degree from Columbia University School of Social Work and bringing over twelve years of experience supporting women and families. Her expertise includes navigating postpartum stress and anxiety, relational conflict, parenting stress, grief and loss, trauma, insecure attachments, and the adjustment to parenthood.

With post-master’s training in Parent-Infant Mental Health and Trauma, Family and Couples Therapy, and advanced training through Postpartum Support International (PSI), Nadia is skilled in attachment-based treatment modalities. Her extensive experience includes working with children and families impacted by interpersonal violence and trauma. Now a mother of two, Nadia is deeply committed to making therapy more accessible, utilizing approaches such as psychodynamic therapy, perinatal child-parent psychotherapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, and mindfulness to empower women and families through trauma-informed, equity-centered, and culturally responsive care.

Right For You If

Areas Of Focus

  • Infertility and trying to conceive (TTC)
  • Early pregnancy loss and miscarriage
  • Pregnancy after loss or infertility
  • Abortion support
  • Prenatal anxiety and depression
  • Birth trauma and traumatic birth recovery
  • NICU and medicalized birth experiences
  • Stillbirth and perinatal loss
  • Postpartum depression
  • Postpartum anxiety
  • Postpartum rage or irritability
  • Postpartum OCD and intrusive thoughts
  • Panic attacks in motherhood
  • Sleep deprivation and emotional dysregulation
  • Identity loss and matrescence
  • Rebuilding sense of self outside of motherhood
  • Relationship and intimacy changes after baby
  • Communication challenges with partner or co-parent
  • Adjusting to parenting multiple children
  • Transition to parenthood
  • Boundaries and resentment in motherhood
  • Mental load, burnout, and invisible labor
  • Cycle breaking and reparenting
  • Gentle/respectful parenting support
  • Parenting with a history of trauma
  • Parenting neurodivergent or high-needs children
  • Managing tantrums and child dysregulation
  • Supporting emotional development in children
  • Mom guilt, shame, and perfectionism
  • Cultural identity and expectations in motherhood
  • Racial identity and systemic oppression in parenting
  • Single parenting
  • Co-parenting and blended families
  • Life transitions and midlife motherhood
  • Parenting teens and adult children
  • Empty nest grief and identity changes
  • Trauma recovery across the motherhood journey
  • PMDD
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Modalities

  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
  • Attachment-Based Therapy
  • Internal Family Systems (IFS)
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • Psychodynamic Therapy
  • Couples Therapy
  • Parent-Infant Psychotherapy

Trainings and Certifications

  • PSI - Perinatal Mood Disorders: Components of Care
  • PSI Advanced Perinatal MH Psychotherapy
  • Beck Institute - CBT for Perinatal Anxiety
  • Post-Master's Certificate  in Infant-Parent Mental Health and Trauma, Child Parent Psychotherapy

The Personal

What’s your favorite way to unwind after a long day? Television and ice cream! Specifically Tillamook Vanilla Bean

What’s a small joy that never fails to make you smile? My boys playing and laughing together harmoniously

What’s your go-to comfort show, podcast, or book? The office- Can watch on repeat and laugh everytime

What’s one thing most people don’t know about you? I have 35 first cousins

If you had a whole afternoon to yourself, how would you spend it? If weather is nice, I would go to the beach or adult only trip to Disneyland!