Jazmine Ortiz Ulibarri MA., LMFT

12/21/2023

Sandbox Family Services Holiday dinner🎉🎊

We are thankful to work with such a great bunch that dedicate their time to support our community. We missed a few SFS team members but they were still in our thoughts 💗

11/03/2023

SFS Bees Wax Candle Making event 🐝🍯🕯️🪔

Something cool about our building is that we have a new hive on top with real bee keepers that help support our environment. Today we made candles with real bees wax.. they smell divine ☺️💗🌸

Some Sandbox Family Services employees pictured making candles 🎉🎉🎉

10/05/2023

We are excited to share we are accepting new clients in our Pasadena location and virtually in the state of California 🎊🎉

03/02/2023

March is Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month, and Sandbox Family Services is raising awareness about the importance of inclusion for children, adolescents and adults with developmental disabilities, and celebrating the unique strengths and vital contributions of these individuals. Early intervention is extremely important. Our infant mental health department supports children 0-5 with reaching developmental delays.

02/21/2023

We are excited to welcome Adriana Reyes, LMFT and clinical Supervisor to our Sandbox Family. Adriana has immediate openings for virtual therapy in CA for individuals, adults, and Teens (15-18). Adriana is a Latinx therapist that combines trauma treatment with an integrative approach, utilizing CBT and DBT. Adriana enjoys working with teens, college/university students, first responders, veterans, and individuals who are experiencing challenges related to anxiety, depression, grief and loss, life transitions, LGBTQ+ identity, relational and attachment wounds, stress, substance use, and trauma. Adriana is fluent in Spanish, and will soon accept KP, Aetna and Optum.

02/14/2023

Babies hold implicit memories in their nervous system and body even if they can’t visually or verbally remember what happened with a narrative story.

Examples of early childhood trauma:

Traumatic birth experiences

Separation from biological parents

Domestic abuse

Neglect / lack of caretaking

Natural disasters

Accidents / injuries

Surgery

Divorce

And many others.

When we acknowledge the trauma that happens in early childhood, we can initiate the healing process and support children through recovery.

Don’t gloss over it. Perhaps that’s easier for the adults in the short term, but it invalidates the child’s experience and retraumatizes the child.

02/10/2023

Welcoming our newest Infant specialist Ms. Yonnie Kim, MA. Yonnie holds a Masters in Psychology with a Specialization in Developmental Psychology from USC. She is extremely caring and nurturing with our little ones. Excited to have her join our Sandbox family 🎊🎉

01/29/2023

Hiring 1 infant specialist that can commute to Baldwin Park, Covina, Glendora, La Puente

01/28/2023

We love our Sandbox Family.. some of our team members 🌸💗 we missed the ones that couldn’t make it

01/15/2023

01/11/2023

Stay tuned ☺️✨🌸

With love,

Sandbox Family Services

01/01/2023

12/31/2022

As we look forward to the New Year with renewed optimism, Sandbox Family Services wishes you and your family the best in the coming year 🥳🎉🎊 #2023

12/24/2022

12/20/2022

Some of us love our family and just like we love them, some of us don’t always like them. There are also some of us that might not have positive feelings about them at all. And all of that is okay. Regardless of your relationship with your family this time of year can be very stressful because for many of us it’s the only time we see our extended family. While this can result in joy and feelings of belonging, this also can be very stressful and emotionally distress.

Perhaps you and your family have different political opinions or they don’t accept you for who you are. Whatever it is, you are not alone 🙏🏼

11/26/2022

You have immense power to positively impact future generations

11/18/2022

We are hiring 3 infant specialists 2 to cover the Pasadena area and 1 to cover the SGV area.
To apply please send your resume to:

SandboxFamilyServices@gmail.com

11/17/2022

You know how people say, “running is my therapy,” or “yoga is my therapy” or “wine is my therapy?”

Today, a loving reminder that actual therapy is really good therapy.

Being alive is such a gift...AND ALSO most of us are facing some very real challenges: the end of a relationship or the struggle of addiction, the loss of a family member or a crisis of faith—and the stories that we tell ourselves about these events are crucially important for our mental health.

Our culture does a few things really well: celebration, happiness, achievement, beginnings.

What we don’t yet do well, culturally: grief, struggle, loss, endings. We don’t know what to do with our badly broken hearts, crushed expectations, searing losses, raging grief.

Therapy helps build a safe container to hold all those wiggly, scary things we’ve been taught to ignore—and you know they won’t be ignored & they’ll find their way out sometime.

How to find a good therapist: word of mouth. Ask people in your life who seem to have a decent handle on their own mental health—chances are they have a good therapist.

And asking about it is valuable in another way: it normalizes therapy, which is important.

We’re not responsible for what happened to us, but we are absolutely responsible for what we do with our pain.

Therapy, like almost every good thing: hard but worth it.

Make the appointment. :)❤️