Dr. Ana-Rocío Escobar-Chew

Dr. Ana-Rocío Escobar-Chew is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) based in Michigan. She speaks English and Spanish and brings 18 years of clinical experience to sessions. She focuses on stress, anxiety, relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, grief, anger, depression, and compassion fatigue.

Her approach centers on collaboration and clients' strengths. She works in a way that helps people notice what already helps them and build on those skills. Sessions aim to make everyday life feel more manageable and help people reach concrete goals.

Dr. Escobar-Chew uses several well-known approaches to guide her work. She draws on Client-Centered Therapy to create an accepting environment, Emotionally-Focused Therapy to address core feelings in relationships, and Solution-Focused methods to set clear, achievable steps. She also integrates ideas from Existential Therapy and the Gottman Method when relevant.

She has particular experience with family of origin issues, adoption and foster care, attachment and blended family concerns, caregiver stress, codependency, communication problems, divorce and separation, immigration issues, and body image and shame. Dr. Escobar-Chew helps people talk through abandonment, forgiveness, and the intense emotions that follow major life changes.

Conversations can be in English or Spanish, and she accepts international clients. To begin, users follow the Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire before scheduling according to availability.

How her approach translates to online therapy

Dr. Escobar-Chew combines Client-Centered Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy to guide online work. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's needs so they feel heard and respected. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps identify and shift core emotions that shape relationship patterns and closeness.

She also uses Solution-Focused ideas to set clear, short-term steps clients can try between sessions. Together these approaches aim to help people notice useful changes quickly and practice different ways of relating or coping in daily life. Choosing which approach to use is a joint process based on your goals and preferences.

If you are considering online therapy, the therapist will help decide what methods fit your needs. The biography does not specify session formats, so confirm current session options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy life, reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and let conversations happen from wherever a person is most settled that day.