Get to know more about Bianca

Bianca Garcia, MS, MHC-LP, is a valued member of our clinical team! Bianca is a proud Hispanic and Latina Mental Health Counselor (Limited Permit) who earned her master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from the State University of New York at New Paltz in August 2022, becoming the first in her immediate family to earn a postgraduate degree. In Fall 2020, Bianca created the Student Psychological Resilience Project and became a Student Resilience Advocate to combat feelings of loss and isolation during the COVID-19 lockdown. She also volunteered as a staff member of Oasis/Haven at SUNY New Paltz, mentoring current Crisis Intervention students and providing peer counseling to those in need.

All of Bianca’s previous experience naturally led her to work with young adults and others navigating challenging life transitions, focusing on building healthy relationships, breaking generational cycles of trauma, and developing coping skills for anxiety and depression. Cultural competency has always been a strong value in Bianca’s therapeutic process, shaped by her own experience of limited representation and cultural understanding from therapists growing up. Bianca is actively practicing her Spanish conversational skills and finds giving back to those with a similar cultural background particularly rewarding.