Direct. Thoughtful.
Focused on change.
I’m Andrew Beltran, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. I work with individuals navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, and patterns in relationships that feel hard to break.
Most of the people I work with are thoughtful, self-aware, and used to holding a lot together. On the outside, things can look fine. Internally, it’s a different story—overthinking, second-guessing, feeling stuck in the same loops.
That’s usually where we start.
Clinical Experience
My background spans multiple levels of care, which means I’ve worked with people across a wide range of experiences, from high-functioning anxiety to more severe and persistent mental health challenges.
My experience ranges from:
Community Mental Health (including field-based and outpatient)
Inpatient Behavioral Health
Long-Term Care and Placement Settings
Residential Care Facilities
Institutions for Mental Disease (IMDs)
State Hospitals
Juvenile Hall and Juvenile Justice
Conservatorship
That range shaped how I work. I don’t get easily thrown off by intensity, complexity, or things that feel “too much.” It also means I’m paying attention to both the emotional experience and the bigger picture, including patterns, systems, and what’s realistically sustainable for you.
In addition to psychotherapy, I provide forensic mental health evaluations, which brings in another layer of structure and objectivity. That balance tends to show up in therapy too— real, human conversations, but with clarity and direction.
How I Work
I tend to be direct, but not harsh. Curious, but not invasive.
I’ll ask questions that might make you pause for a second. Not to catch you off guard, but to help you see something from a different angle. Sometimes that leads to insight, sometimes it’s more like, “okay… yeah, that’s actually accurate.”
Either way, we use it.
I’m also paying attention to patterns in real time—how you talk about things, where you get stuck, what you avoid, and how different “parts” of you show up. That’s usually where the meaningful shifts happen.
Approach
My work integrates:
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for understanding thought patterns
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for flexibility and values-based decisions
Parts-Based Therapy for understanding internal conflict
Psychodynamic Therapy for understanding where your patterns come from and why they repeat
What does that mean? Well look at both what’s happening and what might be underneath it— the patterns you’ve learned, the ways you’ve adapted, and the things you keep finding yourself doing. Then we figure out what’s still serving you, what isn’t, and how to shift that into a way that actually sticks.
A Bit More About Me…
I’m a gay Hispanic man, and those parts of who I am have shaped how I understand belonging, identity, family, and what it’s like to move through spaces where you may not always feel fully seen or understood. I bring that perspective into my work, but it’s also simply part of the person I am outside of my work.
When I’m not working, there’s a pretty good chance I’m at the gym. Working out is one of the few places where my brain actually gets the memo that it can quiet down for a while. It gives me structure, clears my head, and helps me feel grounded. Plus, I genuinely enjoy it.
I also love traveling and getting out of my usual environment whenever I can. There’s something about being somewhere different that helps me reset, get some perspective, and remember that life is a lot bigger than whatever has been taking up too much space in my head lately.
That said, I’m equally protective of doing absolutely nothing. I need my “me” time. Sometimes that means music, sometimes it means zoning out at home, and sometimes it means having nowhere to be and nobody needing anything from me. I’ve learned that having space where I don’t have to be “on” is less of a luxury and more of a necessity.
Music is usually somewhere in the background through all of it. My taste is pretty much dependent on the day, the mood, and what version of myself has control of the playlist.
And then there are my two babies pictured on the left, who take up a completely reasonable and not-at-all-excessive amount of my time, attention, and camera roll. They’re very good at keeping life simple: food, attention, naps, repeat.
The people I care about are a big part of my life too. Spending time with them reminds me that not everything needs to be productive, analyzed, or figured out. Sometimes you just get to enjoy the people you love, laugh about something stupid, and be where you are.