Cecilia Freire, PsyD

Dr. Freire is a bilingual psychotherapist who is passionate about supporting people through significant life adjustments and emotional challenges. Whether coping with medical diagnosis, navigating cultural adjustment, grieving or facing life transitions like becoming a parent, changing careers or retiring. Her expertise includes addressing emotional struggles like anxiety, depression, trauma, personality disorders and relationship issues.

Dr. Freire emphasizes the importance of feeling understood and validated, while at the same time developing a sense of differing perspectives. Working with both English and Spanish speaking clients, she focuses on helping them achieve meaningful progress by gaining emotional insight and tracing their own path to live the life they want to live.

Her approach is primarily psychodynamic with an active and focused approach that help clients develop healthier and more stable relationships, with both others and themselves. Working with Brief Psychodynamic Therapy (BPT) involves setting clear goals and working with an intentional and practical technique. She complements her practice with various evidence-based therapeutic modalities like Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), to tailor and integrative approach that can meet the unique needs and cultural nuances of each client. She works with young adults and adults through individual, couples, and group therapy.

Prior to moving from Argentina to the US, she gained almost two decades of experience working in private practice, hospital settings, research and teaching roles. Dr. Freire earned her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Belgrano, followed by a Specialist degree in Adult Clinical Psychology from the University of Buenos Aires Hospital and a Doctorate in Psychology from the University of The Salvador in Argentina.