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Chris Sanchez
About
Hello and welcome. I’m glad you’re here. I’m a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California with over a decade of clinical therapy experience and decades of experience serving community-based organizations and marginalized communities. I specialize in working with LGBTQIA++ clients, transgender and gender-expansive folks, neurodivergent clients, and people navigating minority stress, identity development, grief, life transitions, sex, relationships, anxiety, ADHD/ADD, autism, and social marginalization.
I bring a queer-positive, trans-affirming, neurodivergent-affirming, sex-positive, and nonjudgmental approach to therapy. I believe therapy should be collaborative, compassionate, and grounded in the reality of who you are. My goal is to create a space where you can show up authentically, feel respected in your lived experience, and work toward a more empowered relationship with yourself, your body, your relationships, and your story.
I chose this path because I have seen how deeply social inequity, stigma, rejection, and misunderstanding can affect mental health, identity, relationships, and the nervous system. I am especially drawn to working with autistic and neurodivergent clients because I believe neurodivergence should be met with curiosity, respect, accommodation, and affirmation rather than shame, correction, or judgment.
Many people who experience symptoms of autism spectrum, ADHD/ADD, are anxious, queer, trans, and marginalized clients have spent years being told they are “too much,” “not enough,” or somehow wrong. I want our work to support a different experience: one where you are understood, believed, and empowered to develop tools that actually fit your brain, body, values, identity, and lived experience. I use Narrative Therapy to help you examine and reshape the story you tell yourself about who you are. Together, we can challenge limiting narratives, strengthen self-defined identity, and build language that supports a more empowered relationship with yourself and others.
My approach is affirming, collaborative, flexible, and strengths-based. I believe you are the expert in your own experience: nothing about you without you. I bring clinical tools, psychoeducation, curiosity, and compassionate care, but we decide together what is useful and what supports your goals.
I draw from Narrative Therapy, Somatic Therapy, Strengths-Based Therapy, Gestalt, Jungian-informed approaches, DBT, grounding practices, central nervous system regulation, polyvagal-informed tools, body attunement, mindfulness, psychoeducation, storytelling, and humor when it fits. We may explore breathwork, grounding, meditation, sound-based supports like binaural beats, and other non-invasive practices that help you develop regulation tools in your own way.
I also work with non-traditional relationship styles and communities, including consensual BDSM, polyamory, pansexuality, blended families, and other relationship structures that may not fit dominant cultural expectations. I use flexibility, open-mindedness, and nonjudgmental exploration to help you identify what is already strong, wise, creative, and resilient within you.
