Dr. Ana-Rocío Escobar-Chew , LMFT

Dr. Ana-Rocío Escobar-Chew is a bilingual English-Spanish therapist licensed in Michigan with 18 years of professional work experience. As an LMFT (Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist), she combines a strength-based, collaborative stance with evidence-based treatments to support individuals, couples, and families facing a wide range of challenges.

Her practice focuses on stress and anxiety, relationship and family conflicts, trauma and abuse, parenting concerns, grief, depression, and intimacy-related issues. She also works with concerns related to abandonment, adoption and foster care, attachment issues, blended family dynamics, body image, caregiver stress, codependency, communication problems, divorce and separation, and immigration-related difficulties.

Dr. Escobar-Chew emphasizes client safety as a foundational element of therapy while helping clients pursue meaningful and practical change. She builds on each person's strengths and resilience to tailor interventions that align with individual goals and life circumstances. With a collaborative approach, she guides clients through coping with life changes, processing difficult emotions such as guilt or shame, and repairing or improving relationships.

Clients seeking support for parenting, family problems, or compassion fatigue will find a therapist who attends to both immediate concerns and longer-term goals, helping them move forward with clarity and purpose.

Approach-Focused Care Through Online Therapy

Dr. Escobar-Chew often draws from client-centered therapy, which centers the client's experience and priorities and helps people explore their feelings and personal goals while building greater self-understanding and agency. She also uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) to help couples and families identify and change unhelpful emotional patterns, strengthen attachment, and improve connection in close relationships. The Gottman Method is another approach she integrates for relationship work - it focuses on practical skills for communication, conflict management, and rebuilding trust.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Dr. Escobar-Chew collaborates with each person or couple to identify which methods best fit their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting the plan as progress unfolds.

Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging offers flexibility for people juggling work, caregiving, or geographic constraints. These options make it easier to maintain consistent care, access licensed professionals from different locations, and find formats that feel most comfortable for each client.