Pilar Alfaro-Palacios, MS, LCPC is a highly experienced and licensed psychotherapist with over 30 years of experience providing compassionate and effective mental health
care. She specializes in working with adults, couples, and families navigating challenges
related to life transitions, related to trauma, anxiety, depression, substance use, cross-
cultural and parenting issues.
With two years of training in marriage and family therapy, she integrates a family systems
perspective with mindfulness practices, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and solution
focused interventions to help clients develop insight, strengthen relationships with
themselves and others, and foster lasting change. Her approach is collaborative,
emphasizing the therapeutic relationship as the foundation for growth and healing.
A bilingual and bicultural clinician fluent in Spanish, Pilar brings deep cultural sensitivity
to her work. As a therapist, her goal is to help clients learn how to find answers from
within. She believes that by working with the present, clients gain awareness,
understanding, and acceptance, all of which are necessary to create change, personal
growth, and fulfillment.
Education: George Washington University
Loyola University
care. She specializes in working with adults, couples, and families navigating challenges
related to life transitions, related to trauma, anxiety, depression, substance use, cross-
cultural and parenting issues.
With two years of training in marriage and family therapy, she integrates a family systems
perspective with mindfulness practices, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and solution
focused interventions to help clients develop insight, strengthen relationships with
themselves and others, and foster lasting change. Her approach is collaborative,
emphasizing the therapeutic relationship as the foundation for growth and healing.
A bilingual and bicultural clinician fluent in Spanish, Pilar brings deep cultural sensitivity
to her work. As a therapist, her goal is to help clients learn how to find answers from
within. She believes that by working with the present, clients gain awareness,
understanding, and acceptance, all of which are necessary to create change, personal
growth, and fulfillment.
Education: George Washington University
Loyola University