Yancy Padilla, LICSW

Yancy Padilla is a child and adolescent clinical social worker. Her practice is geared towards early intervention and treatment with pediatric and youth patients with mental health diagnoses including trauma, ADHD, anxiety, behavioral problems, and learning disorders. She has specialized, evidence-based training in the evaluation and treatment of traumatic stress in children and adolescents, ages birth through 18 years. She is certified in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), certified in Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), master trained in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and trained to fidelity in Child-Focused Traumatic Stress Intervention (CFTSI).  She has supported experience working with the child welfare systems and has had the opportunity to testify in court and participate in multidisciplinary team meetings along with court staffing meetings. As a native Spanish speaker, she takes great pride in serving diverse and underserved populations across many settings. In addition to this service, she has made it her personal mission to break down language barriers to meet the needs of Spanish speaking families seeking mental health services in a client-centered collaborative, compassionate, and trauma-sensitive manner to establish clarification of diagnoses and develop an appropriate treatment plan for the child(ren).