Karissa Hernandez
Registered Associate Marriage and Family therapist (CA #161952)
Providing a safe, supportive space for children and adults to process emotions, build resilience, and create meaningful change.
You may be feeling overwhelmed by emotions you can’t quite make sense of, stuck in patterns that continue repeating, or carrying experiences that feel difficult to move through on your own. At times, life can feel heavy when you’re trying to manage anxiety, relationship stress, life transitions, school challenges, family conflict, or painful experiences that have left you feeling emotionally drained. You may find yourself wondering why things still feel hard despite your best efforts to move forward.
For children and adolescents, these challenges may show up differently. Your child may be struggling with emotional outbursts, behavioral concerns, anxiety, school-related stress, difficulty adjusting to changes at home, or challenges expressing what they are feeling. As a parent, it can feel painful watching your child struggle while feeling unsure of how to best support them.
Often, people feel stuck not because they are unwilling to move forward, but because painful emotions have not been fully processed. In an effort to protect ourselves from further hurt, we may avoid difficult emotions altogether, which can unintentionally keep us feeling stuck in the very patterns we want to change.
Therapy can offer a space to slow down, better understand what you’re experiencing, and begin building healthier ways of coping. It can help you strengthen emotional awareness, improve emotional regulation, and feel more confident navigating life’s challenges.
You deserve a therapeutic space where you feel safe, understood, and free from judgment. Healing often happens when people feel truly seen and supported while working through difficult emotions at a pace that feels manageable.
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Karissa works with both children and adults and takes a collaborative approach to therapy that prioritizes safety, trust, and respect. She understands that every client’s needs are different and works alongside each individual to create goals that feel meaningful and realistic.
Her approach incorporates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Solution-Focused Brief Therapy Solution-Focused Brief Therapy to help clients better understand their emotions, develop practical coping skills, and create meaningful progress both in and outside of therapy sessions.
Healing often looks like small but meaningful shifts—feeling more in control of your emotions, navigating relationships in healthier ways, seeing your child feel more regulated, or recognizing that life feels more manageable than it once did.
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Anxiety
Depression
Trauma
Life Transitions & Change
Grief & Loss
Children & Teens
Adults
LGBTQIA+
OCD
Postpartum & Perinatal
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Mindfulness
Humanistic
Solution-Focused Therapy
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Roseville in-person sessions
CA virtual sessions