Brenda Ibarra
Licensed Therapist, MA, LMFT
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OCD can create overwhelming cycles. As a therapist, I strive to show the connections between how you think, how you act, and how you feel, and how we can break those cycles. Getting back to being you takes practice. I’d like to invite you to invest in yourself as you begin treatment. I will join and challenge you to reach within yourself to find the life you're looking for. I also focus on anxiety, depression, and mood disorders. I can provide treatment in English or Spanish.
OCD can create overwhelming cycles. As a therapist, I strive to show the connections between how you think, how you act, and how you feel, and how we can break those cycles. Getting back to being you takes practice. I’d like to invite you to invest in yourself as you begin treatment. I will join and challenge you to reach within yourself to find the life you're looking for. I also focus on anxiety, depression, and mood disorders. I can provide treatment in English or Spanish.
Location
Licensed in California, Colorado
About
Clinical Expertise
OCD, Anxiety, Depression, Phobias, Skin picking, Hair pulling, Nail biting, Tics, Children and Adolescents
Cultural competencies
Christianity
Education
Argosy University
Insurance
Plans accepted by Brenda
Aetna, Ascension SmartHealth, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Blue Shield, Blue Shield of California, Central California Alliance for Health, Cigna, Curative, Forest County Potawatomi, Gold Coast Health Plan, Horizon BCBS, Independence Blue Cross, Kaiser - Northern California Region, L.A. Care Medi-Cal, Oscar Health, Partners Direct Health, Positive Healthcare, San Francisco Health Plan, United Healthcare, Western Health Advantage,
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Get to know Brenda
How I create a safe, supportive environment in therapy
ERP is collaborative, and you should feel safe and secure to question me about what the purpose of an exposure is. When we first start working together, I will let you know that you can tell me no if you're not ready to do an exposure, as long as it's followed up by, "but I'm willing to do this instead."
My message to you if you're struggling right now
Members sometimes come in unsure if they can handle ERP—just know that we will work together to one-up OCD.
How I help address cultural stigmas
I can do my sessions in Spanish and Spanglish, which helps many Members feel comfortable. I'm Mexican American and mental health is highly stigmatized in my culture. The longer that I work in the field, the more I really want to support my roots and where I come from.
The most rewarding part of treating OCD
It's powerful seeing Members work their way up toward their core fears. One Member I worked with took her biggest fear and turned it into her career, which is really amazing.
Why our members love working with Brenda
J.A.
Brenda is amazing. She has been a lifesaver for our family. She is so warm and funny. She knows exactly how to talk to my son and make him feel comfortable. I am so grateful to her.
N.B.
This was a great session with Brenda! She heard and validated my feelings and gave me some great strategies to work on.
J.C.
Brenda is phenomenal.
D.G.
Me gusto mucho komo hablo la therapist kon mi hijo y kon migo.
N.B.
Brenda always listens and gives me helpful strategies!
M.S.
She so nice and great!
G.T.
Amazing therapist, very kind and compassionate toward my struggles as always
J.A.
My son is doing so much better since he started seeing Brenda. After his session today he said she is the best therapist ever and the only one he feels he can totally open up to. We appreciate her so much.
L.T.
My daughter’s therapist, Brenda I, is incredibly gifted and effective at teaching us tools to tackle OCD and understanding more about managing it. My daughter has improved leaps and bounds in identifying her triggers, externalizing her OCD thoughts & behaviors, and using skills to bring herself back to a normal baseline. Obviously a continuous work in progress, but we are going all to grow and learn as much as we can. Brenda has been a godsend to our family. The importance of Brenda working to involve our whole family in our daughter’s treatment means we are all on the same page in how to not accommodate the OCD. It is working wonders! Thank you, Brenda and NOCD, for all your hard work! Much much appreciated!
K.A.
Shout out to Brenda for somehow making life easier to manage for me and most importantly help me manage emotions to ENJOY life more and help tackle the very hard aspects of it!!
J.A.
Brenda is amazing for my son. So engaging and funny. Gets him to laugh even when he has to do hard things during the sessions.
J.C.
She is amazing
N.B.
I had a great session with Brenda today! She gave me some helpful strategies to try out, and we had a good discussion about my progress and things I’m still working on.
C.S.
Brenda is such a blessing!
J.A.
Our first impression of Brenda is amazing. She was so engaging and funny with my son. She was able to connect with him about his passion for running since she is a runner too. He told her he was excited to start therapy with her which he has never said to another therapist. I am so encouraged right now.
P.B.
We love Ms Brenda! She does a great job at connecting to my daughter and is always very helpful.
J.C.
A real expert and so kind and knowledgeable.
N.B.
This was a great session! Brenda helped me with a lot of self-doubt and increased ruminating. She gave me some good strategies to use, and also helped me understand better how OCD is affecting my thoughts. Very helpful!
R.R.
Extremely helful!
J.C.
Brenda remains amIng each and every session. You can tell she is an expert and you feel in good hands.
J.C.
Brenda is wonderful. She knows how to keep the interest of an 8 year old who is embarrassed by his condition and make him feel “normal” and safe. She is professional-yet so warm-and always on time and makes him feel like he has a way to improve life b
J.C.
You can tell she is an expert and actually cares and it means so much.
J.C.
Wonderful
T.F.
Brenda was so amazing! She helped me understand the process she explained everything to Thomas and was just so knowledgeable and reassuring.
J.C.
Amazing and gave us hope and honesty.
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