Dr. Yesenia Teran is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT #143858) providing immigration psychological evaluations and psychotherapy throughout California via telehealth. She offers bilingual services in English and Spanish, with a focus on culturally responsive, trauma-informed, and evidence-based care.

Dr. Teran specializes in working with individuals and families experiencing emotional, relational, and medical stressors. Her clinical background includes extensive experience supporting people living with chronic medical conditions, including HIV/AIDS, as well as clients across diverse sexual orientations and gender identities. She uses an attachment-based approach to help clients understand how relational histories influence emotional regulation, interpersonal patterns, and overall mental health.

In addition to therapy, Dr. Teran conducts immigration psychological evaluations for legal proceedings. These include evaluations for hardship waivers (I-601 and I-601A), asylum cases, VAWA self-petitions, U visas, T visas, and cancellation of removal. Evaluations are completed using standardized clinical assessment methods, thorough psychosocial interviews, and careful documentation, with the goal of assessing psychological functioning and relevant mental health factors in a trauma-informed and culturally responsive manner, while maintaining clinical objectivity.

Dr. Teran also serves as an adjunct professor in graduate-level marriage and family therapy programs, where she teaches and supervises emerging clinicians. Her academic work emphasizes ethics, professional responsibility, clinical assessment, and culturally informed practice.

She is currently completing advanced training toward certification as a sex therapist, under the supervision of a certified sex therapy supervisor. This training informs her clinical work related to intimacy, sexuality, relationships, and sexual health concerns, within her professional scope of practice. Whether providing therapy, conducting immigration psychological evaluations, or teaching, Dr. Teran's goal is to offer a professional, structured, and respectful environment that supports clarity, self-understanding, and psychological well-being.