Amparo Pacheco

Amparo Pacheco is a licensed clinical social worker in California with ten years of professional practice. She works bilingually in English and Spanish and focuses on helping people navigate periods of change and challenge. Her work centers on practical steps toward clearer self-understanding and steadier motivation.

Her specialty areas include self-esteem, career concerns, depression, coping with life changes, compassion fatigue, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting, ADHD, and sleep difficulties. She also attends to related concerns such as attachment and abandonment, body image, guilt and shame, isolation, and workplace stress. Amparo takes a broad view of how these issues intersect and aims to address them in context.

Amparo emphasizes creating an open, nonjudgmental space where thoughts and feelings can be shared and explored. She supports clients in taking the first steps toward goals they name and collaborates on plans that fit each person’s priorities and circumstances. Seeking change is described as an act of courage, and she offers steady support through that process.