Parenting Seminars
Our Approach
Alma Community Care offers parenting workshops in the spring and fall to families in the Greater Logan Heights community. Each seminar is presented by licensed marriage and family therapists and is available free of charge to seminar attendees, as well as family and friends. Explore the list of available seminars below.
Nurturing Hearts and Minds
Each child carries a story shaped by their experiences, relationships, and environment. We come alongside families to better understand children’s emotions, the challenges they face, and the ways stress and trauma can affect their well-being. Together, we focus on nurturing emotional strength, building resilience, and reminding children and parents that they are valued, capable, and never alone.
By strengthening emotional well-being and resilience, families are better equipped to navigate stressors common in under-resourced communities, leading to healthier children and more stable home environments.
ADDITIONAL SEMINARS
How trauma impacts your child
Childhood bullying
Raising resilient children
How to develop your child's self-esteem
Childhood Anxiety
Strengthening Family Bonds
Strong families are built through connection, communication, and care especially during difficult moments. Seminars in this area invites parents and caregivers to deepen relationships with their children by listening with empathy, repairing after conflict, and fostering trust at home. We believe healing and growth happen in relationships rooted in patience, grace, and mutual respect.
As a result, stronger family relationships contribute to emotional safety, reduce isolation, and promote relational healing supporting long-term stability for children and caregivers alike.
SPOTLIGHT
Conflict resolution with our children
Communicating with your child
Parenting With Focus and Grace
Parenting is a journey filled with both joy and challenge. Alma supports parents as they lead their families with intention, consistency, and compassion. We offer practical tools and encouragement to help caregivers set healthy boundaries, work together in unity, and respond to their children with calm and confidence knowing that growth happens one step at a time.
When parents are supported as capable leaders, families experience greater stability, reduced stress, and more nurturing home environments that foster healthy child development.
SPOTLIGHT
Practicing patient parenting
Unified parenting
Setting boundaries with your children
Therapists That Care
Claudia Rios-Gastelum, LMFT
Claudia is a bilingual (Spanish) and holistic practitioner who strives to support each individual in finding their path towards resiliency. Claudia’s special interest is to support caregivers who have experienced trauma, NICU parents, LGBTQ, LatinX and military families.
Learn more about Claudia's qualifications, special trainings and philosophy.
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Romelia is a Marriage and Family Therapist, who has been practicing since 2015. She holds a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology from Southern California Seminary. She has vast experience doing individual, couples, and group therapy in private and group practices.
Learn more about Romelia's qualifications, special trainings and philosophy.
Angel Vargas, LMFT
Angel is a bilingual and bicultural psychotherapist with a Master in Science in Counseling degree from University of Phoenix. He has been in clinical practice since 2012 helping clients dealing with depression, anxiety, substance use and addictive behaviors, trauma, mood disorders, grief and loss, spirituality/faith and life transitions, specializing in men's issues. He utilizes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy as his primary treatment modality in addition to trauma-informed, solution-focused and strength-based approaches, to empower clients to overcome their struggles and thrive.
Learn more about Angel's qualifications, special trainings and philosophy.
Karla Molina, MS and LMFT
I come alongside individual and couples and teach them effective ways to communicate their feelings and needs. I teach them alternates to the negative habits they developed and help them towards creating heart felt connection. I utilize different interventions including Gottman Method interventions, cognitive behavioral, emotional-focused, and mindfulness.
Learn more about Karla's qualifications, special trainings and philosophy.
Evelyng Cohen, AFMT
Evelyng practices narrative therapy while engaging with her clients in a culturally responsive manner and client-centered language. She is passionate about her holistic ideas on mental health to employ body movement and artistic expressions in collaborative explorations with her clients. As well as working in companionship with clients where knowledge and understanding are co-created through meaningful therapeutic conversation. Her joy in working with families stems from many years of working on art projects and creative expression with children and their families.
Learn more about Evelyng's qualifications, special trainings and philosophy.
Maria Anguiano, LMFT
I enjoy working with individuals who’ve experienced trauma or are navigating life with ADHD. My approach is warm and supportive, gently challenging you to step outside your comfort zone and grow. I believe in finding the balance between pushing you toward your goals and validating where you are right now. Together, we’ll work toward reaching your full potential. I also enjoy supporting parents in improving their parenting skills, helping them foster stronger, more connected relationships with their children.
Learn more about Maria's qualifications, special trainings and philosophy.