Associate Clinician
Jessica Renteria is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (AMFT), where she serves as part of the Veterans Initiative. In this role, she provides compassionate, evidence-informed care to veterans and their families, supporting individuals navigating trauma, transition, identity development, and relational challenges. Her clinical work is grounded in a deep commitment to equity, accessibility, and culturally responsive practice.
Bilingual in Spanish and English, Jessica has experience working with at-risk youth in nonprofit community settings, where she supported adolescents and families facing systemic barriers, intergenerational trauma, and limited access to mental health resources. These experiences continue to inform their collaborative, strengths-based approach to therapy.
Having traveled extensively and immersed themselves in diverse cultural contexts, Jessica brings cultural humility and curiosity into the therapeutic space. She is attentive to the ways culture, community, and lived experience shape mental health and relationships. As a queer clinician, they are particularly committed to affirming LGBTQ+ individuals and challenging dominant discourses that marginalize or pathologize difference. Her work seeks to create space for clients to define themselves on their own terms.
At the core of her practice is the belief that healing happens in authentic, empowering relationships. Jessica is dedicated to helping individuals, couples, and families cultivate resilience, deepen connection, and move toward lives that feel meaningful, aligned, and fully their own.
Jessica supports clients through the Veterans Initiative - CVHI branch of the clinic.