Jazmín Barrera , LMFT

Jazmín Barrera is a marriage and family therapist licensed in California with more than 13 years of clinical practice. Born and raised in San Francisco's Mission District, she is Salvadoran and Nicaraguan and a native Spanish speaker, offering full bilingual services in English and Spanish.

As an LMFT - Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist - she has worked extensively with clients facing crisis stabilization needs and multiple co-occurring conditions. Her practice has included counseling individuals and families confronting immigration and deportation challenges, domestic and community violence, teen pregnancy, barriers to work readiness, homelessness, and substance use concerns.

Since 2012, Barrera's clinical work has combined brief and longer-term psychotherapy using strength-based, trauma-informed, and culturally congruent interventions. She draws on a client’s worldview as a framework to support health and wellness practices that build resilience, and she encourages clients to become active agents of change within their communities.

Her experience includes collaboration with people from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds. Up to 70% of the clients she has worked with are monolingual Spanish-speaking immigrants, and 50% are African American. Ten percent of her clients speak Maya/Yucateco, Maya/Mam, Quechua, Cantonese, Samoan, Tagalog, Mongolian, Arabic, English, or Russian. This background informs her work with culturally informed, social justice, and relational approaches to address community violence and intergenerational trauma.

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