Dr. Ana-Rocío Escobar-Chew
Compassionate relationship-focused therapist
LMFT Michigan
- Experience
- 18 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Relationship, Family
- Approaches
- Gottman Method, Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English, Spanish
About Ana-Rocío
Dr. Ana-Rocío Escobar-Chew uses relationship-focused methods to guide people through stress, anxiety, and tough life changes.
Background and approach
She is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 18 years of experience and offers services in both English and Spanish. Her style is collaborative and strengths-based, aiming to help people feel steadier and more understood.
She blends approaches that focus on emotions, practical problem solving, and improving interactions. That means sessions often include looking at feelings behind behavior, trying small changes between meetings, and practicing better ways to communicate.
The Gottman Method informs her work on relationship patterns and interaction skills. Her background includes helping people recover from trauma and abuse, manage grief, and cope with parenting stress and caregiver strain.
She also addresses issues such as body image, attachment and abandonment concerns, adoption and foster care questions, and challenges tied to immigration and cultural transition. Therapy sessions aim to identify strengths, set clear goals, and build everyday skills people can use right away.
She works with topics like codependency, anger, depression, intimacy concerns, and family of origin problems in a direct, respectful way. Sessions are offered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging so people can choose what fits their routine.
Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session based on availability.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Dr. Escobar-Chew uses approaches that focus on emotion and relationship patterns to help people make practical changes. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and understanding so people can explore what matters most to them and decide on next steps. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps identify core emotions and the patterns they create, which can reduce distress and improve how people relate to others. The Gottman Method is used to notice interaction patterns and practice specific communication and conflict skills that can change everyday exchanges.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. She will work together with each person to identify goals, try approaches that match those goals, and adjust the plan as progress is made. That collaborative process helps ensure sessions focus on what is most useful for the individual's situation and preferences.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and skills practice, while phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to fit brief conversations into a busy day or to continue work between longer sessions. These options make it simpler to maintain consistency and access care from Michigan or other locations where she accepts clients.
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Experience
18+ years
Licensed in
Michigan
Languages
English, Spanish