Compassion
Every story is held with care — yours included. There is no version of you too messy, too quiet, too foreign for this room.
Rivas Psychotherapy began with a question — what would mental health care look like if it truly belonged to the bilingual, bicultural communities it served?
Dr. Michele Rivas opens her solo bilingual practice in Weston, Florida, after years of clinical training across the United States and Latin America.
The practice begins offering specialized mental health evaluations for asylum, VAWA and U-Visa cases across South Florida.
The first associate clinicians join. The practice grows into a multi-disciplinary, bilingual team with shared cultural values.
Care expands to Florida, New York and New Jersey — meeting bilingual clients wherever they live.
The team comprises 12 licensed bilingual therapists, all sharing a commitment to evidence-based, culturally fluent care.
Rivas Psychotherapy establishes itself as a private practice that accepts the major commercial health insurance plans in multiple states, as well as Medicaid in New York.
Therapy should sound like you — your language, your accent, your jokes, the silences between the words your family taught you. I built this practice so no one has to translate themselves to be understood.— Dr. Michele Rivas
Every story is held with care — yours included. There is no version of you too messy, too quiet, too foreign for this room.
Bilingual isn't an add-on. Our clinicians live the bicultural experience — the family dinners, the code-switching, the in-between.
CBT, DBT, EMDR, ACT, Gottman, EFT — we use what the research supports, adapted to who you are.
Sliding-scale spots, insurance, in-person care in Florida and telehealth across New York and New Jersey — because the threshold to begin should be low.
We're growing our bilingual clinical team. If you care about culturally fluent, evidence-based care, we'd love to meet you.
Reach out and let's see if we're the right fit.