Cristina Lugo

I'm Cristina Lugo, LCSW, a licensed clinical social worker and EMDRIA Certified EMDR Therapist. Founder of Cristina Lugo Psychotherapy, a private practice based in Pasadena, CA, serving Pasadena, Northeast LA and the San Gabriel Valley in person and clients throughout California online. I work with Gen Z and young millennials, ages 18 to 30, who look fine on paper: employed, independent, functional. Underneath, they're quietly exhausted from anxiety, people-pleasing or a nervous system that learned to brace long before they could explain why. They catch themselves saying the exact phrase their mother used to say, in the exact tone. The Sunday call with their parents was technically fine, and they're anxious all night anyway. Many grew up with emotionally immature parents or in a house...