Kennia Torres , LMFT

Kennia Torres is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) who brings a compassionate, practical approach to working with individuals and couples. With 14 years of clinical experience, she helps people gain insight, restore hope, and build a clearer, more positive outlook on life. She creates a supportive environment where clients can address relationship challenges, self-esteem concerns, grief, codependency, anxiety, depression, PTSD, trauma, anger, problematic coping, and motivational struggles.

Kennia emphasizes understanding how emotions shape thoughts and behaviors, guiding clients to recognize patterns that influence their well-being and relationships. She supports clients in developing healthy coping skills to regulate emotions and respond to stressors more effectively. Through collaborative work she helps individuals identify goals and practice strategies that promote emotional balance and more satisfying connections with others.

Clients can expect a therapist who blends empathy with practical tools, offering clear guidance while honoring each person's unique experience. Kennia focuses on helping people build skills that translate into day-to-day improvements, fostering resilience and a greater sense of agency in their lives.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Kennia integrates evidence-informed approaches to tailor support to each person's needs. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps clients clarify personal values and build psychological flexibility - it is useful for stress, anxiety, and coping with difficult emotions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns to reduce symptoms like anxiety and depression and to improve day-to-day functioning. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes empathy and nonjudgmental listening, creating space for clients to explore their experiences and find their own solutions, which can be especially helpful for issues like self-esteem and relationship difficulties.

Finding the right combination of approaches is part of the therapeutic process. Kennia works collaboratively with each person to determine which methods fit their goals, preferences, and situation, adjusting techniques over time as needs change. This collaborative stance helps clients feel involved in their care and more confident in the tools they practice.

Delivered online, these approaches translate well to video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Online therapy offers flexibility - it makes it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, reduces travel time, and allows people to receive support from familiar surroundings while working with licensed professionals and therapists who can adapt methods to virtual formats.