From the ashes, we grow.
Trauma-informed, culturally responsive psychotherapy for adolescents and young adults. Understand your story, reclaim your identity, and grow beyond what you have survived.
Paula Tirado Mansilla, LCSW · Beyond the Embers Counseling, LLC
"Our experiences do not have to define our future."
A space to heal, grow, and rediscover yourself.
Beyond the Embers Counseling, LLC is a private psychotherapy practice dedicated to helping individuals heal from past experiences, navigate life's challenges, and rediscover their sense of self.
I believe individuals are more than their diagnoses, symptoms, or traumatic experiences. Rather than focusing solely on what's wrong, I help clients understand how their experiences have shaped them, recognize their strengths, and build lives aligned with their authentic values.
Bilingual care
Sessions in English and Spanish.
Trauma-informed
A safe, validating space without judgment.
Virtual telehealth
Secure sessions from your own space.
Teens & young adults
A particular focus on growing into yourself.
Individualized therapy for meaningful growth.
Trauma-informed psychotherapy to help you navigate emotional challenges, develop healthier coping strategies, and grow. All sessions are offered virtually through secure telehealth.
Trauma & Complex PTSD
Understand and process traumatic experiences, recognize how trauma influences emotions, behaviors, and relationships, and develop healthier patterns of coping and healing.
Anxiety & Stress Management
Support for excessive worry, racing thoughts, emotional overwhelm, and chronic stress through emotional regulation, coping strategies, and self-awareness.
ADHD & Executive Functioning
Navigate attention, organization, motivation, emotional regulation, and self-esteem with practical strategies that work with your individual strengths.
Identity Exploration & Self-Discovery
Explore personal and cultural identities, develop self-confidence, identify core values, and build a stronger sense of self.
Life Transitions & Personal Growth
Navigate major changes involving relationships, careers, family dynamics, independence, and other significant life experiences.
Relationships & Healthy Boundaries
Recognize unhealthy patterns, improve communication, establish boundaries, and develop healthier interpersonal connections.
Therapy is not about fixing what is broken.
It is an opportunity to better understand yourself, reconnect with your strengths, challenge patterns that no longer serve you, and build a life aligned with your values and aspirations.
Trauma-informed
Care that honors your pace and creates safety before anything else.
Culturally responsive
Your culture, family, and identity are part of your story, and part of healing.
Collaborative
We set goals together. You are the expert on your own life.
Strengths-based
We build on what is already strong in you, not only what hurts.
Sessions available in English and Spanish, with a particular focus on adolescents and young adults.
Insurance-based services are available depending on plan eligibility and coverage.
From the ashes, we grow.
Healing doesn't mean forgetting the past or returning to who we once were. It means discovering who we can become because of what we've survived.
Paula Tirado Mansilla, LCSW
Hello, and welcome! I'm Paula, a bilingual (English/Spanish) Licensed Clinical Social Worker and the founder of Beyond the Embers Counseling, LLC.
My journey has included individual psychotherapy, supporting children and families in community and school-based mental health settings, and leadership roles as both a Program Director and Clinical Director.
Why I founded Beyond the Embers
I wanted to create a space where individuals are seen, heard, and valued for who they are, rather than defined by their diagnoses, symptoms, or past experiences. The name represents the belief that even after life's most difficult experiences, there is still room for renewal, transformation, and growth.
"My goal is not to tell you who you should become, but to help you discover who you want to be."
Take the first step toward growth.
Schedule directly through my secure booking platform, or send a brief note and I'll be in touch. Please don't share sensitive clinical details here.