Dr. Pilar Castaneda is a Marriage and Family Therapist licensed in the States of CA, NY, and TX.   She has been helping Children, Individuals, Couples and Families for over 30 years and has been working at Divine Mercy for the last six years.

She has extensive experience working in English and Spanish with people from different backgrounds and presenting problems. She creates a warm and safe environment where clients feel heard, understood, and encouraged to grow. To learn about her clients and to understand them in their context, she explores the history of their lives that includes not only information regarding their family backgrounds, dynamics, values and patterns but also their connections and relationships, their strengths and difficulties, in their context. She bases her interventions on the client's strengths and resources and encourages empowerment in their lives in a respectful environment where Catholic values are embraced.  She is an expert in the work with Couples, Families and Children suffering with Depression, Anxiety, Trauma, Post Traumatic Stress, Obsessive compulsive disorders including Scrupulosity and Phobias.  She works with Couples struggling with Infidelity, Poor communication and high levels of conflict.

Dr. Castaneda is also a Clinical Fellow of the AAMFT as well as an Approved Supervisor of the AAMFT.