More About Lupita

Lupita Martínez

is a bilingual and Chicana Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist raised in South Bay LA. Growing up, she moved around a bit thus grew up in the cities of Lennox, Inglewood, and Hawthorne.

She took a short break from the South Bay to get her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology at University of California, Berkeley and returned home for her Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology from CSU Dominguez Hills in Carson, CA. Born and raised in a Latinx family, she absorbed her family’s examples and spirit of humility, hard work, and dedication to helping one another.

She has always held a genuine interest in Latinx mental health and her thesis and research aligns with this. Her master’s program thesis focused on Latinas experiencing symptoms of anxiety and depression due to their internal struggles related to the many roles they adhere to. A lifelong student herself, she has received training in various evidenced based therapy models such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Problem Solving Therapy and most recently Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR).

Lupita is aware of how important it is to continue to provide treatment from a wider framework, taking into account generational and historical trauma that many have been experienced. Even though she has been trained in Eurocentric* therapeutic theories and practices, she is able to take this knowledge while still addressing the whole person - mind, body, heart, and spirit. 

Being a first generation student herself, she has experienced her fair share of impostor syndrome, particularly in the academic and professional settings. Her passion is working with other first generation professionals of color and helping them understand the complexities of their thinking as well as motivate them to learn to chill. Knowing perfectionism and being a super-person first-hand, she is well aware of the complexities and influences that arise in being a first-generation female of color.

*Eurocentric is used here to describe a therapeutic worldview that is centered on a Western individualistic civilization and has been influenced by many centuries where lack of inclusion and lack of representation has been seen in the field of psychology.