Karla Cardoza, LMFT
Karla Cardoza joined Postpartum Support International (PSI) as a Helpline volunteer right after her master’s program in 2016, and is now the Spanish Helpline and Hotline Manager. She provides direct support to the Helpline volunteers, Spanish group leaders and PSI Latinx coordinators in Latin America.
Karla was born and raised in Mexico City. In 1994, she left her home country to pursue her Bachelor’s in Communication Disorders from Harding University in Searcy, AR. Fast forward several years later, she moved to Los Angeles and made it her second home. During her graduate program with an emphasis in Latinx Family and Trauma Studies, she felt called to reconnect to her ancestral roots and develop her niche in perinatal mental health. Karla recognized the struggles that her abuelas (grandmothers) and her mamá went through in their pregnancies and raising their children. Karla has been invited to do presentations and short interviews in Spanish about perinatal mental health.
Karla has done training in various modalities including A Cerrar las Caderas (Closing of the bones) a Mexican Traditional Medicine for postpartum care, pre/postnatal yoga, trauma resilience model, perinatal mental health, trauma-informed yoga, foundations of yoga for mental health, child play therapy and Interpersonal Biology (IPNB). She has a small private practice in Sherman Oaks, CA.
Karla is passionate in supporting mothers and families struggling with PMADs here in the United States and Spanish-speaking individuals across the world. On a personal level, Karla enjoys dancing with her husband, going on walks with her two senior pups, hanging out with friends, gardening, traveling, and practicing yoga and meditation.
