At the heart of my work is a deep curiosity about people; what shapes us, what helps us survive, how we grow, and what becomes possible when we feel understood.
Estefany Guzman, LCSW
Founder, Metamorfosis Counseling
BETWEEN CULTURES
NACIDA
MEXICANA.
Raised in the U.S.
Living between cultures has shaped the way I see people and the stories we carry. I know what it’s like to move between different expectations, values, languages, and ideas of who we’re supposed to be.
It’s taught me that we can’t understand who someone is without also making room for where they come from, what they’ve lived through, what they’ve carried, and who they’ve had to become along the way.
Context Matters.
THE WORK BEHIND THE PERSON
I earned my Bachelor’s in Forensic Psychology from John Jay College of Criminal Justice and my Master of Social Work from Fordham University. The beginning of a path that has taken me alongside children, foster youth, adults, couples, families, clinicians, and individuals navigating complex systems.
Those experiences continue to inform the way I show up today with curiosity, clinical intention, and respect for the whole person.
LCSW · Clinical Supervisor · Therapist · Founder
Trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and holistic.
Work that honors the mind, body, heart, and soul.
I’M A PERSON OUTSIDE OF THIS WORK, TOO.
When I’m not holding space for others…
I’m usually finding ways to reconnect with myself.
Whether that means slowing down, getting outside, creating something, or spending time with Korra, these parts of my life keep me grounded, creative, and connected to myself.
They’re also reminders of something I believe deeply:
healing doesn’t only happen in the therapy room.
It happens in how we live, rest, create, connect, play, and care for ourselves in everyday life.
WHY METAMORFOSIS
The name was intentional.
I wonder what a caterpillar experiences during its time in the cocoon. How does it feel to undergo such a profound change? It’s a living creature, after all, moving through its own unique process of becoming.
I imagine there is something both painful and beautiful about it—the breaking down of what once was, the discomfort of change, and the gradual emergence of something different. I wonder if it knows, somewhere in that process, what is waiting on the other side.
To me, this is what “doing the work” can feel like.
Healing—true healing—can be uncomfortable, exhausting, and emotionally challenging. There are parts of the journey that only you can travel, because no one else can do the work for you. But while the work is yours, you don’t have to do it in isolation.
As a therapist, my role is not to transform you into someone else. It is to walk alongside you, to offer guidance, and to help create a space your cocoon, if you will, where you can safely explore what has shaped you, reconnect with yourself, and allow transformation to unfold in its own time.
I’m honored to hold that space. To witness the becoming. To support you through your own deeply personal metamorfosis.