Margarita Velosa, Therapist
Margarita Velosa, LCSW, is dedicated to helping individuals, couples, and families navigate life’s challenges with a focus on fostering meaningful and lasting change. Serving patients across California, she specializes in providing compassionate care for adults and seniors, offering a wide range of therapeutic services tailored to address each client’s unique needs. Whether supporting individuals struggling with anxiety, depression, or substance use, or guiding couples through relational challenges, Margarita creates a supportive environment to promote healing, growth, and connection. Margarita is particularly passionate about addressing relationship dynamics, anxiety, and women’s issues, including midlife and postpartum transitions. Her approach is rooted in understanding the intricate emotional and psychological factors that affect interpersonal relationships, enabling clients to build stronger and more fulfilling connections.
Additionally, she provides specialized support for women facing reproductive challenges, life transitions, and the emotional complexities of postpartum depression and anxiety. With a focus on empowering her clients, she blends evidence-based techniques with a warm, empathetic approach. Drawing from extensive expertise, Margarita employs therapeutic methods such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Couples/Marital Counseling. She also incorporates health and wellness principles into her practice, emphasizing the connection between physical and mental well-being. Her work extends to diverse populations, including first responders, military veterans, and LGBTQ+ individuals, ensuring inclusive and culturally sensitive care.
Margarita also has additional expertise in treating PTSD and trauma, grief and challenges related to medical conditions, health psychology and Religious Trauma Therapy. Mission to provide religious trauma-informed support and resources to survivors of and those helping survivors of religious trauma, adverse religious experiences (AREs), faith deconstruction, cults, spiritual abuse, and leaving high demand/high control systems. Beyond her professional work, Margarita is passionate about health and wellness in her own life. She enjoys running, hiking, cycling, and weight training, finding balance and resilience through fitness. Her commitment to self-care and holistic well-being informs her approach to therapy, inspiring clients to explore their own pathways to wellness.
Provider Introduction
Types of Care & Ages Served
- Couples Therapy: Ages 18-75+
- Individual Therapy: Ages 18-75+
- Family Therapy: Ages 18-75+
Areas of Focus
Couples Therapy
Helps partners address relationship conflict and improve communication with a clinician's guidance.
- Attachment issues
- General relationship issues
- Marital stress or divorce
- Premarital counseling
- Ability status
- Caregiving
- Depression/feeling down
- Domestic violence & abuse
- Emotional abuse
- End-of-life challenges
- Ethnic identity
- Family conflict
- Grief & loss
- Immigration/cultural status
- Racial identity
- Religion & spirituality
- Self-esteem
- Sex & intimacy issues
- Sexual trauma
- Social injustice
- Trauma & PTSD
Individual Therapy
Get help addressing challenges and improve well-being with a clinician's guidance.
- Ability status
- ADHD
- Aging
- Anger issues
- Anxiety
- Attachment issues
- Attention & focus
- Autism: generally independent
- Bipolar Disorder
- Body image
- Bullying or harassment
- Career & relationships (mid-life)
- Career & work issues
- Caregiving
- Depression/feeling down
- Domestic violence & abuse
- Early adulthood: Independent living or relationships
- Early adulthood: Starting college or career
- Eating issues: binging
- Emotional abuse
- Empty nesters
- End-of-life challenges
- Ethnic identity
- Family conflict
- Fertility
- First responder stress
- Focus, concentration & memory
- Gambling
- Gender identity
- General relationship issues
- Grief & loss
- Immigration/cultural status
- Intense mood changes
- LGBTQ+
- Marital stress or divorce
- Men's health/issues
- Menopause & perimenopause
- Military & veteran
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Other addictive behaviors
- Other women's health concerns
- Panic attacks
- Parenthood
- PMS & PMDD
- Pornography/sexual behaviors
- Post-partum depression & anxiety
- Pre-conception
- Pregnancy
- Pregnancy loss
- Premarital counseling
- Racial identity
- Religion & spirituality
- Retirement
- Self-esteem
- Sex & intimacy issues
- Sexual trauma
- Sleep issues or insomnia
- Social injustice
- Social skills & communication
- Stress from ongoing health issues
- Stress management
- Trauma & PTSD
- Unhealthy eating habits
- Video game/internet
Family Therapy
Improve communication and resolve conflicts within family dynamics with a clinician's guidance.
- Ability status
- Aging
- Depression/feeling down
- Early adulthood: Independent living or relationships
- Early adulthood: Starting college or career
- End-of-life challenges
- Ethnic identity
- Family conflict
- First responder stress
- General relationship issues
- Grief & loss
- Immigration/cultural status
- LGBTQ+
- Marital stress or divorce
- Military & veteran
- Premarital counseling
- Racial identity
- Religion & spirituality
- Retirement
- Self-esteem
- Sexual trauma
- Social injustice
- Trauma & PTSD
Insurances Accepted
- Aetna
- Blue Shield of California (D)
- Carelon (Beacon)
- Centivo
- Central Health Plan of California
- Claritev (MultiPlan PHCS)
- Devoted Health Plan
- Elevance Health (Anthem BC) (D)
- Evernorth (Cigna)
- Health Net (MHN)
- HealthSmart
- Humana
- Kaiser Permanente (NorCal)
- Kaiser Permanente (SoCal)
- Lakeside Medical (Regal Medical)
- Magellan (D)
- MediNcrease Health Plans (MHP)
- Medicare
- Northwell Direct
- Optum (UnitedHealthcare)
- Partners Direct Health
- Provider Network of America (PNOA)
- Quest Behavioral Health
- Sana Benefits
- TELUS Health (BHS)
- Tricare West (TriWest)
Languages
- English
- Spanish
Education
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Hunter College
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Adelphi University
New patient?
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Questions
Please call us at 858-279-1223 to schedule an appointment with Margarita Velosa.
Margarita Velosa generally accepts new patients but there could be a waitlist.
Please call 858-279-1223 to find out Margarita Velosa's schedule and availability.
LifeStance Health providers accept most commercial insurance plans that are offered in the states where we offer services, including telehealth. Please see the following list of insurances accepted by Margarita Velosa:
- Aetna
- Blue Shield of California (D)
- Carelon (Beacon)
- Centivo
- Central Health Plan of California
- Claritev (MultiPlan PHCS)
- Devoted Health Plan
- Elevance Health (Anthem BC) (D)
- Evernorth (Cigna)
- Health Net (MHN)
- HealthSmart
- Humana
- Kaiser Permanente (NorCal)
- Kaiser Permanente (SoCal)
- Lakeside Medical (Regal Medical)
- Magellan (D)
- MediNcrease Health Plans (MHP)
- Medicare
- Northwell Direct
- Optum (UnitedHealthcare)
- Partners Direct Health
- Provider Network of America (PNOA)
- Quest Behavioral Health
- Sana Benefits
- TELUS Health (BHS)
- Tricare West (TriWest)
If you don't see your insurance listed, please contact us at 858-279-1223 to see how we can help.
Margarita Velosa is a Therapist and cannot prescribe medication. However, most LifeStance offices have a Psychiatrist or APN on staff who can prescribe medication if needed.
Margarita Velosa works at:
Yes, Margarita Velosa does offer online telehealth visits.
No, Margarita Velosa is not currently offering in-office visits. They are offering online telehealth appointments.
- English
- Spanish