Celina Alvarez Marroquin (she/her) identifies as a cishet, Afro Latina, (Black/Puerto Rican) woman from New York City. She grew up as the eldest daughter within a culturally diverse, working class, inner-city neighborhood, and is the first in her biracial family to graduate college. Celina attained her Master’s degree in clinical psychology from George Washington University and is on track to attain her doctoral degree from George Washington University by August 2026. She has years of therapy experience at college counseling centers and community mental health clinics. Across her life, she has lived, learned, and worked in New York City and upstate NY, Philadelphia, Boston, Utah, and Oregon as well as South Africa, Spain, Greece, and Indonesia. Celina is passionate about learning and environmental/social responsibility. In her spare time, she loves being with her dogs, eating delicious vegan food, reading, and going for walks.

Celina brings a caring blend of thoughtfulness, humility, compassion, grit, and hustle to therapy. Her style is honest and open, with a gentle, warm, and curious presence that accepts her patients as they are. Celina is an active and dedicated therapist, and therefore, prefers a participatory and collaborative therapeutic relationship. She holds her clients accountable, while providing a patient, educational space for clients to deepen their understanding of themselves and others. She is skilled at connecting with a wide diversity of clients on a human level while guiding them to successfully better understand and manage their emotions (anger, anxiety, depression) and improve relationships with friends, romantic partners, and family, as well as with themselves (low self-esteem, guilt/shame, trauma, etc). She works to help folks not only survive but to thrive in the face of life's many challenges.

Celina offers an integrative approach, with a strong, modern psychodynamic/psychoanalytic, relational, trauma-informed, and culturally humble focus. She often includes Cognitive Behavioral therapy (CBT), self-compassion, emotion-focused, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), mindfulness, and decolonial techniques. Celina is committed to working from a multicultural, systemic approach with clients, as she acknowledges that each of us encompasses a layered and complex human experience shaped, in part, by our individuality and personalities, but also the multilevel systems we are a part of. Therefore, Celina strives to help clients process their unique lived experiences while thoughtfully acknowledging and drawing out their strengths, wants/needs, goals, and values.