Mike Arteaga
Associate Marriage & Family Therapist, AMFTStruggle with anxiety, trauma, relationship issues, or navigating life transitions. I enjoy helping individuals and couples grow and connect.
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Life is challenging, and it’s not always easy to manage everything on your own. Whether you're facing trauma, emotional distress, relationship struggles, life transitions, or grief, I’m here to help. I work with individuals and couples across all life stages, guiding you through growth, healing, and deeper connection. Together, we’ll explore emotions, process experiences, and build resilience. My approach integrates mind-body connection and somatic work—helping you attune to your body.
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Feeling stuck in the same frustrating patterns with your partner or family? You may recognize the issues, but somehow, they keep resurfacing. While the content of conversations may shift, the cycle remains the same. How do you break free and create a space where everyone feels seen, heard, and valued? You don’t have to figure it out alone. I’m here to help you uncover the deeper patterns and work together to create lasting change. I am here when you are ready to begin!
I help individuals address layers of trauma, intergenerational trauma, and current life issues. My hope is to help people on their journey of the 'authentic self'. I support clients in exploring and affirming their identities in relation to sex & gender. I recognize the importance of creating an affirmative space where clients can explore their authenticity free from judgment or stigma. I work collaboratively with clients navigating the complexities life can hand us.
Client population: All Adults, Women (including perinatal), Filipino-American Community What I treat: Depression, Anxiety, PTSD, OCD, Bipolar Disorder, ADHD, Trauma, Stress, Sleep Issues, Life Transitions and other mental health issues. Treatments: Psychotherapy, Medications and Complimentary Alternative Therapies
I know what it's like to struggle with feeling safe in your body and not knowing why you feel that way. We together can separate the medical challenges from the mental health challenges. I can help teach you strategies to move through your trauma and eating disorder challenges to remain feeling safe in your body again. We can expand the uncomfortable feelings gently in session to help those feelings move out of your body and not return.
My work is rooted in the belief that every person has inherent worth and the potential for transformation. In therapy, I tailor my approach to each client’s specific needs, drawing from evidence-based modalities such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), attachment theory, and mindfulness practices. By blending these techniques with a faith-based perspective, I aim to provide care that feels both practical and spiritually grounded.
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With extensive experience working with adolescents, young adults, and older adults, I help clients uncover the deeper roots of their struggles, heal, and take meaningful steps toward lasting change. If you're ready to break free from patterns that no longer serve you and gain a deeper understanding of yourself, I’m here to guide you.
I’ve worked in community clinics, the LGBT Center in LA, and dual diagnosis treatment centers, facilitating 4,000+ psychodrama groups in IOP, PHP, and residential settings. Most recently, I spent two years at an adolescent residential treatment center providing individual therapy, family therapy, and parent coaching. In-person and virtual sessions available.
I specialize in trauma-informed, person-centered care, addictive disorders, gender issues, parenting, sociocultural trauma related to oppressive systems, fragmented self, abuse recovery, marital and family conflict using with an integrative, cooperative and multi-dimensional approach.
I specialize in anxiety, depression, and trauma. I am also experienced in healthy peer and intimate relationships, co-dependency, LGBTQ+, and adoption related issues. My approach is eclectic with an emphasis on CBT. Identifying faulty core beliefs in particular while working to accurately shift them can benefit overall progress. Increasing positive coping, self care, and mindfulness are also essential in my work. To start, we will explore what you want and discuss how we can get you there.
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My LGBTQIA2S+ clients are acutely in tune with authenticity. At times, this quality can cause life to feel heavy and overwhelming. The worry, stress or fear can cause folx to feel stuck. The things that once helped, no longer work. Many of my clients have experienced depression, anxiety and trauma. Our journey together can help navigate these things and create a map for what is next.
You are insightful and self aware, you know all of the “right” things to do and think, and yet you still struggle to truly feel good enough. Have you spent your life trying to achieve and move up the ladder and still feel anxious, panicky, or like something is missing? You might be a people pleaser and struggle to say no or to set healthy boundaries. Maybe you have a hard time showing all of yourself to loved ones and instead present only the parts of yourself that seem likable.
My clients describe me as warm, empathic, supportive, direct, insightful and active in the therapy. Many of my clients are focusing to improve their lives, relationships, patterns of behavior, find new coping skills and tools, heal from past events, and better understand themselves. Whether it is anxiety, depression, substance use & addiction, trauma, stage of life or personal growth and career focus, we will find ways to navigate these challenges together and build a stronger sense of self.
We all have wounds. Whether they be from complex trauma, grief, chronic pain/illness, relationship difficulties or other hardships in life, we all have emotional scars. But we also all have the innate, inherent capability to heal, grow, & positively change. If you need guidance, validation, support, & greater insight, you've come to the right place.
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I am passionate about supporting clients on their own journeys of self-exploration, reflection, and development through talk therapy. I’m also the founder of Collective Space Therapy, promoting and advocating emotional and mental health for all people and communities in San Diego.
In this increasingly “good vibes only” culture, do you feel that you need to hide parts of yourself in order to fit in or be included in the group? Do you feel like you’re either too much or not enough? Like you’re the black sheep in your family or with your friends? You may have been thrown into an adult role as a child, having to emotionally care for your parent or caregiver, at the expense of your own emotional development, growth, or even safety. If this sounds familiar, there is hope.
If you're on a quest to understand your distinct self, navigate the complexities of your relationships, & find your place in a diverse world, you've discovered a compassionate companion. My practice is a haven for those who experience the world intensely, offering a nurturing environment to explore & honor your sensitivities, & intricacies. Together, we'll focus on building resilience, enhancing communication, & fostering authentic living, empowering you to embrace and celebrate your true self.