Integrative Psychotherapy for adult children of immigrant parents, mixed and multicultural people
Raissa Alvero, MA, AMFT
(she/her/siya)
I provide integrative psychodynamic therapy to those navigating life transitions, relational stress, and generational trauma. Many of the people I work with feel stuck, grapple with trust and intimacy or find themselves weighed down by anxiety, depression, or unresolved trauma.
I see therapy as a supportive space to navigate personal struggles, deepen self-understanding, and grow. It is also a way to strengthen relationships—with ourselves, with others, and with the world around us. Together, we focus on cultivating self-awareness, shifting unhelpful patterns, building fulfilling connections, and developing new ways of being, thinking and doing that open pathways forward.
My aim is to help expand your innate capacity to understand your feelings, trust your experience, and connect more fully. Therapy takes courage and humility. It asks us to turn toward what is uncomfortable so that we can break free from patterns that keep us stuck and move toward greater freedom.
As a psychotherapist, I am committed to walking alongside you—offering support, perspective, and gentle challenge in service of meaningful change and growth. Our work will invite both exploration and pragmatism: slowing down thinking, listening closely, and allowing new insights to emerge. By integrating depth-oriented, liberation-focused, and trauma-responsive approaches, we will uncover and untangle the deeper issues shaping your sense of self and belonging, and discover what is alive within you along the way.
Life can feel overwhelming, isolating or riddled with anxiety and despair. Therapy offers an unhurried, non-judgmental, exploratory space for you to unravel, unlearn and move towards awareness, healing and growth.
Depth psychotherapy is an invitation to step into the unknown—a living, dynamic process that calls for courage, openness, and the presence of a trusted witness. It offers a space to cultivate acceptance of who you are now while opening to who you are becoming. Progress is rarely linear. It can be challenging to know yourself, but you don’t have to do it alone.
Who I see in my practice
I have experience and enjoy working with second or third time therapy seekers and:
Individuals used to caring for a family member with intense emotional needs
Professionals who have lived most of their lives trying to meet parental or cultural expectations while privately rebelling
Those who find themselves easily frustrated or disconnected, struggling to stay level-headed and feel stuck in their communication with others
Women and femmes who want to break free from overthinking and develop a healthier relationship with their feelings and body
Couples and individuals on the path to marriage and parenthood who wish to break generational cycles, fostering deeper connection and intentional change
Lawyers, educators and advocates
Tech workers, medical providers and engineers
Artists, creatives and critical thinkers
Queer-identifying, LGBTQIA+ folks
Approaches
Depth-Oriented
Bringing attention to what is outside of awareness and uncovering the deepest parts of who you are
Together we will carefully listen, gain insight and get a deeper understanding of what keeps you stuck. We will work to describe inner constraints and conflicts, relationship patterns and structures of behavior that may be blocking you and your relationships.
Through our work together, we will discover what is alive beneath your surface.
Liberatory + Systemic
Examining and externalizing struggle through the context of interlocking systems: family, society, ideology, culture, ecology, the sociopolitical + economic
We have complex experiences and live in complex times. I value supporting folks in their move towards authenticity and liberation. Together we can address internal and structural obstacles, harness unique strengths and locate your sense of agency.
In therapy we can get to know your stories, examine cultural influences and release intergenerational burdens.
Trauma-Responsive
Allowing embodied healing to take place in the present moment and making meaning of your experience
Structural violence and social oppression can contribute to feelings of being diminished, demeaned and disempowered. Together we will slow down, invite curiosity and develop inner and outer resources to help you process feeling states and unresolved experiences in the here-and-now.
With time, we can build trust in your inner knowing and fortify the wisdom of your body and imagination.
Areas of Focus
Immigrant + First Gen Experience
Burnout & Imposter Syndrome
Family conflict
Assimilation, im/migration & race-based stress
Intergenerational legacies, burdens & trauma
Mental Health Challenges
Anxiety
Depression
Low self-esteem
Suicidal ideation
Managing attentional difficulties or challenges related to Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Trauma
Post-Traumatic Stress & Complex PTSD
Adverse Childhood Experiences
Developmental Trauma
Cultural trauma, colonial mentality and the effects of oppression
Relationship Difficulties
Relational Trauma including experiences of betrayal, codependency, emotional abuse, family violence and intimate partner violence
Difficulty finding a partner or making friends
Attachment issues
Premarital Counseling
Purpose, Meaning and Existential Issues
Life transitions
Grief and loss
Identity changes and exploration
Cultural bereavement
Decoloniality as social and spiritual practice
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
―James Baldwin