Yoyce Geronimo Galvan, M.A
Founder of Held & Seen Coaching
I am a queer Latina and a native Spanish speaker with a Masters Degree in Clinical and Counseling Psychology. I did not arrive at this work theoretically. I don't study the worlds my clients navigate. I have lived inside them.
My own life has moved through the same intersections my clients navigate: familismo and cultural loyalty, religious expectation, LGBTQ+ identity within communities that have their own relationship to silence and tradition, and the particular experience of being othered in both directions and never fully belonging to one world or the other.
Degree:
M.A. Clinical & Counseling Psychology
Languages:
English · Español
Featured in:
ABC · Univision · Latinx Social Work
Presented:
Rx and Illicit Drug Summit
National Latino Behavioral Health Conference
National Conference on Youth Prevention, Treatment and Recovery
This work lives where credentials end and real experience begins.
A decade inside the behavioral health system
I hold a Master of Arts in Clinical and Counseling Psychology. Before founding Held & Seen Coaching, I designed equity-centered programs for Latine and LGBTQ+ communities, trained and supervised peer coaches, and led a national program that reached thousands of families navigating a loved one's substance use. I have presented at national conferences across behavioral health, addiction medicine, and Latinx mental health, and published in a peer-reviewed journal.
My graduate clinical practicum training was completed at Rutgers University's Office for Violence Prevention and Victim Assistance, where I provided trauma-informed counseling to survivors of sexual and domestic violence. I supported people carrying the weight of repeated victimization, internalized self-blame, and the exhaustion of surviving something the world around them minimized or misunderstood.
Across my career, I sat with survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence. With individuals whose lives have been shaped by schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. With queer people navigating the distance between who they are and what the people they love can hold. With families affected by a loved one addiction. With Latine individuals carrying the particular weight of moving between worlds that make different and often contradictory demands. Nearly all of them were doing it without adequate support.
Different roles. The same people. The same gaps in the system.
I bring all of that here. I did not build this practice to add another credential. I built it because the people I kept meeting along the way, the ones holding their families together, translating between worlds, surviving things no one was supposed to experience, had nowhere to go once the crisis was over.
This is that place. Held & Seen Coaching is twelve sessions, four phases, built entirely around where you are right now. If you have spent years in open-ended process without seeing outcomes, or years carrying something with no map at all, that structure is intentional. You deserve work that moves and a coach who knows the terrain.
If something here feels true to where you are…
I'd like to hear from you. A free 30-minute conversation. No pitch. No pressure. Just an honest talk about what you're navigating and whether this work is the right fit.