Hi, I’m Dayana Ferrera.

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As a mental health therapist, I see my role as helping you gain a deeper understanding of the patterns you may feel stuck in and what might be happening underneath them. Therapy is a space to explore your story and make room for what comes next — so you can make more confident decisions and take steps that align with who you are, what you value, and the life you want to create.

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I work with individuals and couples. Together, we may look not only at what you are experiencing now, but also at the experiences that have shaped how you relate to yourself and others. This may include navigating life transitions, attachment and relationship patterns, family of origin, trauma, identity, boundaries, emotional and physical responses, values, and the ways you have learned to seek connection, safety, and belonging.

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My approach to therapy is collaborative, relational, and grounded in curiosity. Rather than assuming there is something that needs to be “fixed,” I am interested in helping you understand yourself more deeply — including how your experiences, relationships, identities, environments, and nervous system have shaped the way you move through the world.

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My work integrates trauma-informed and attachment-based perspectives with principles from Gestalt Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), mindfulness, and Somatic Experiencing. I tailor therapy to the person or relationship in front of me rather than expecting you to fit a particular model. At times, our work may be reflective and exploratory; at others, it may involve learning practical skills, experimenting with something new, or identifying concrete changes you want to make in your life or relationships.

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I also believe that mental health cannot be separated from the rest of our lives. Our emotional well-being is connected to our bodies, relationships, work, culture, spirituality, sexuality, creativity, communities, and environments. Therapy can be a place to consider the whole person — not simply symptoms or diagnoses.

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Being human is complex. We can want independence and connection, safety and change, belonging and freedom — sometimes all at once. Therapy does not have to eliminate those complexities. Instead, it can help us better understand them, make room for them, and create greater freedom in how we choose to respond.

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My hope is to create a therapeutic relationship where you feel supported enough to be curious — about your needs, your contradictions, your strengths, and the parts of yourself you may not have had the opportunity to fully know yet.