She has clinical experience in various settings, including behavioral health, child welfare, and university counseling centers. Vanessa has worked with individuals across the lifespan, with a primary focus on adolescents and young adults. She has helped clients manage depression, anxiety, adjustment difficulties, attachment and relationship issues, career decision-making challenges, and ADHD. She has also focused on issues of oppression and marginalization in minority clients, trauma, and identity concerns. Vanessa incorporates cognitive-behavioral, relational, psychodynamic, multicultural, and strengths-based approaches into her therapeutic style. She sees therapy as a collaboration between the client and the clinician, with the primary goal of meeting the client’s specific needs.