Autumn Altamirano, LCSW
Licensed in California · 10 years in practice
Autumn Altamirano is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with ten years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and parenting challenges.
License and registration
- LCSW, California
- 90439 · expires July 2027
- LCSW, Tennessee
- 7834 · expires October 2026
- NPI
- 1194198226 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 10
- Languages
- English
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About Autumn
Autumn Altamirano is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with ten years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and parenting challenges. She also supports concerns like low self-esteem, relationship strain, grief, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Autumn offers practical, down-to-earth help so families can get through hard moments and move forward.
Her approach starts by listening. She uses a client-centered style that lets the person set the pace and priorities.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what matters most to the client and on small, manageable steps toward change. Autumn brings warmth and a straightforward manner to meetings so people feel heard and respected. Autumn draws on methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques, attachment-based work, mindfulness tools, and motivational interviewing.
She tailors those methods to each person, combining them in ways that fit the problem and the person’s life. Expect concrete strategies for coping with anxiety, improving communication, managing mood, and handling family stress. Her background includes work in independent practice, outpatient clinics, and school-based settings.
Autumn completed a Master of Social Work at the University of Southern California and holds LCSW credentials in Tennessee and California. That mix of settings gives her experience with both short-term goals and deeper, ongoing concerns. Outside therapy she enjoys soccer, reading, cooking, and time with her husband and children.
She aims to create a respectful, collaborative environment where people can set clear goals and make steady progress.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Autumn lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Depression
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Family problems
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Autumn names
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
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Online support
How therapeutic approaches work online
Autumn uses cognitive behavioral work to identify unhelpful thinking and teach practical skills for mood and anxiety management. CBT is useful for panic, obsessive thoughts, low mood, and unhelpful habits. Attachment-based therapy looks at how early relationships affect current patterns and helps people change how they relate to others and to themselves.Finding the right approach is a team effort. Autumn will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and how they respond to different methods. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers a range of session styles to fit different needs. Video calls let people work face-to-face from wherever they are, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows shorter check-ins during breaks, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent while fitting it into daily life.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does Autumn help with?
She supports stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, parenting struggles, relationship and family problems, self-esteem issues, grief, ADHD, anger, and coping with life changes.
What is her general therapy style?
She uses a client-centered style that starts where the person is and follows their goals. Sessions are collaborative and focus on practical steps.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has ten years of experience working in settings such as independent practice, outpatient care, and school-based services.
What credentials and location are on file?
She holds LCSW credentials in Tennessee and California and practices from Tennessee.
Which languages are available for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats does she offer?
She works via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
How are sessions paid for and what do they cost?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
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