Jazmín Barrera

Jazmín Barrera is a marriage and family therapist licensed in California (CA LMFT 141145, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California) with over 13 years of clinical practice. Born and raised in San Francisco’s Mission District, she is Salvadoran and Nicaraguan and is a native Spanish speaker who is fully bilingual in Spanish and English.

She has worked with clients presenting multiple co-occurring conditions that often require crisis stabilization services or intervention. Her clinical caseload has included individuals and families impacted by immigration and deportation, domestic and community violence, teen pregnancy, work-readiness challenges, homelessness, substance use concerns, and related issues.

Since 2012, her practice has included both brief and longer-term psychotherapy using strength-based, trauma-informed, and culturally congruent clinical interventions. She draws on each client’s worldview as a cognitive template to support health and wellness practices and to fortify resilience, and she aims to motivate clients in their recovery to become agents of change and wellness within their communities.

Her extensive experience has shaped a particular ability to collaborate effectively with people from multi-ethnic and multi-cultural backgrounds. Up to 70% of the clients she has worked with are monolingual Spanish-speaking immigrants and 50% are African American. Ten percent speak Maya/Yucateco, and Maya/Mam, Quechua, Cantonese, Samoan, Tagalog, Mongolian, Arabic, English, and Russian. She recognizes the role that culturally informed, social justice, and relational approaches can play in defining health and wellness practices and in addressing community violence and intergenerational trauma.