Provisionally Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Ana Gonzalez Guzman
Trauma, Men’s mental health, Relationships, Anxiety, Identity, Self-worth, and Substance use
Pronouns: She/Her/Ella
Licensure: Provisionally
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Location: MA
Languages: English
Accepting New Clients: Yes
Sliding Scale: Yes
Insurance: To be confirmed
About Isaac
Hello, I’m Ana Gonzalez Guzman (she/ella), a Dominican clinician offering telehealth for children, teens, and adults across Massachusetts. I support clients with ADHD, anxiety, depression, trauma, and who are neurodivergent. My approach is trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and grounded in the realities of migration, racism, language, and class. Together we’ll slow down, notice what is happening in your body, home, and community, and build routines for regulation, rest, and focus while honoring culture, family, and faith. I am LGBTQIA+ affirming, bicultural, and provide care in English and Spanish.I offer a space to release the weight of work stress, caretaking, or the quiet exhaustion of code-switching. Together we notice what is happening in your body, home, and community, and build routines for rest, focus, and steadiness that honor culture, family, and faith. I am bicultural, LGBTQIA+ affirming, and offer care in Spanish and English.I see therapy as a collaboration where you are the expert on your life, and I offer support, reflection, and care. You do not need the right words or a script. Together we create language and grounding so you can feel open, safe, and accompanied, with space to explore your story at a pace that feels steady and true.
Specialties
Neurodivergence
Trauma/PTSD
Anxiety
Depression
Socioeconomic Inequity
Grief and loss
LGBTQ+
Immigration
Food Relationship
Cultural Resistance within Systemic Oppression
Self-Image/Body Dysmorphia
Political & Climate Stress
Relationships
Homelessness
Substance Use
Body Acceptance/Positivity
Intercultural or Interfaith Relationships
Intergenerational Trauma & Healing
Burnout
Life Transitions/Changes
Areas of Focus
Justice and liberation of marginalized and oppressed groups/people
Advocacy
Centering client strengths
Decolonization
Trauma and healing
Activism
identity-affirming
Modalities
Trauma-Informed Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Narrative Therapy
Strengths-Based Therapy
Client-Centered Therapy
Mindfulness and Meditation
Motivational Interviewing
CBT
DBT
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Feminist Therapy
Neurodivergent-Affirming Therapy
Yoga
Art Therapy
Humanistic Therapy
Breathwork
Lived Experience
and Perspective
Latina, Dominican
Immigrant
Low-Income
First-Generation College Student
LGBTQ+
Biracial
Neurodivergent Person
Woman
Spiritual
Why I Do This Work
- Ana Gonzalez Guzman
My Approach in Practice
What Clients Often Come to Me For
People often reach out when life feels heavy, layered, or difficult to put into words.
Men Who Don’t Have Many Places to Talk Honestly
A lot of men have learned how to be useful, capable, funny, productive, or dependable without having many places where they can be uncertain, scared, lonely, hurt, or confused.
Therapy can be somewhere we look at what masculinity has asked of you, what it has protected, what it has cost, and what kind of man you actually want to be.
Trauma & Life That Has Felt Chaotic
My background includes residential work with adolescents who experienced significant trauma and complicated life circumstances.
I’m interested in what happens after survival becomes a way of moving through the world: staying guarded, expecting things to fall apart, feeling responsible for everything, disconnecting, getting angry quickly, or struggling to trust people even when you want closeness.
Relationships That Keep Finding the Same Painful Places
Maybe the relationship changes, but the argument feels strangely familiar.
We can look at attachment, conflict, intimacy, boundaries, fear of losing people, difficulty relying on others, or the patterns that keep appearing when closeness starts to matter.
Anxiety, Self-Worth & Feeling Stuck
Sometimes there is no dramatic crisis. You just keep finding yourself in a version of life that no longer fits.
Anxiety, self-doubt, overthinking, feeling directionless, or knowing what you “should” do without feeling able to move can become places to slow down rather than immediately push through.
Identity, Meaning & Big Life Questions
Who am I when I am not doing what everyone expects of me?
What do I actually value? What kind of relationships do I want? What happens when the life I built stops making sense?
My existential approach makes room for questions about identity, purpose, mortality, belonging, spirituality, work, creativity, and the strange experience of being a person trying to make a life among other people.
Substance Use & Other Ways of Getting Through
I’m less interested in starting from Why are you doing this to yourself?
I want to understand what alcohol, substances, avoidance, work, isolation, or another coping strategy has been helping someone manage.
We can take the harm seriously without losing curiosity about why the strategy became useful in the first place.
Our work focuses on making sense of what you have lived through while supporting you in building clarity, resilience, and self-trust in ways that fit your life and values.
