David Meza, LCSW

David Meza is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 16 years of clinical experience supporting people facing anxiety, depression, trauma, and related challenges. He emphasizes building a therapeutic relationship grounded in trust, authenticity, and compassion, and tailors treatment strategies to meet each person’s unique needs. He frames therapy as a space to address emotional wounds and to strengthen coping skills while honoring the pace and priorities of the individual.

Across his career, he has worked with adults, children, and families, and has experience in crisis management and mental health services for military veterans. His clinical work includes trauma-focused approaches such as compassion inquiry and wounded-parts work, alongside methods for stress and anger management and depression support. He integrates a range of evidence-informed approaches including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy, Mindfulness Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Psychodynamic Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Trauma-Focused Therapy, and Internal Family Systems (IFS).

David also addresses a broad set of concerns including relationship difficulties, self-esteem, parenting and family problems, grief, compassion fatigue, ADHD, addiction-related issues, co-morbidity, codependency, communication problems, and military-related challenges. He provides therapy in English and practices in California. Due to state licensing regulations, he is only able to offer services to residents of California.