Therapy should not require you to flatten your culture, family history, language, identity, or relationships into a simpler story. The context around what you feel often matters as much as the symptom itself.
Peace Love Wellness offers culturally responsive, relational online therapy for adults and couples throughout Queens, including Astoria, Jackson Heights, Flushing, Jamaica, Sunnyside, Forest Hills, and the rest of the borough. English and Spanish options are available, subject to clinician fit and availability. All sessions are virtual; we do not have a Queens office.
Peace Love Wellness connects Queens adults and couples with online therapists for individual and relationship therapy. English and Spanish options are available subject to clinician fit, schedule, insurance participation, and current openings. Insurance, private-pay, and reduced-fee options are available. Care can address anxiety, family expectations, cultural or bicultural identity, burnout, grief, life transitions, trauma, and relationship patterns.
Anxiety, guilt, conflict, or self-doubt rarely exists in isolation. It may be shaped by migration, race, language, faith, family roles, financial pressure, sexuality, gender, disability, or the experience of belonging to more than one world. These parts of your life do not need to be treated as side notes in therapy.
Culturally responsive therapy is not a promise that a therapist will automatically understand every experience you have had. It is a commitment to curiosity, humility, and care that considers the systems and relationships around you. Our matching process also gives you space to name language, identity, and lived-experience preferences that matter.
Therapy may help you work with:
Individual therapy can help you understand how family roles, cultural expectations, protective strategies, and past experiences shape what is happening now. You decide which parts of your identity and story belong in the work. If you prefer therapy in Spanish, include that in your intake form; bilingual availability depends on clinician fit, schedule, and insurance.
Explore Bilingual and Bicultural TherapyPartners may enter a relationship with different expectations about communication, privacy, money, family responsibility, gender, affection, or conflict. Therapy provides a non-blaming space to understand those differences and the cycle that forms around them. We offer affirming care for LGBTQIA+ couples and ethically non-monogamous relationships as well as monogamous partners.
Explore Couples and Relationship TherapyKaren offers individual, couples, and family sessions in English or Spanish and is accepting new clients. Michelle also offers therapy in English and Spanish and is currently accepting waitlist requests. Karen, Zaire, and Michelle all work with concerns connected to anxiety, family context, self-worth, and life transitions. Current openings and clinical fit determine the available match.
English & Spanish-Speaking Therapist
A warm, practical therapist who considers relationships, family, work, and the circumstances shaping your life.
Languages: English, Spanish
Currently accepting new clients
View Karen’s Profile
Culturally Responsive Therapist
Culturally responsive support for anxiety, ADHD, depression, trauma, identity, and major life transitions.
Languages: English
Currently accepting new clients
View Zaire’s Profile
Therapist for Overwhelm, Grief & Emotional Steadiness
Bilingual therapy in English and Spanish for anxiety, overwhelm, emotional dysregulation, self-doubt, and life stress.
Languages: English, Spanish
Currently full — accepting waitlist requests
View Michelle’s ProfileWe are in-network with Aetna, Anthem / Empire BlueCross (including Excellus, Highmark, and out-of-state BlueCard plans), Carelon, Cigna, EmblemHealth, MagnaCare, Meritain, and NYSHIP / The Empire Plan. Cameron is also in-network with NYCE PPO, United HealthCare / Optum, Oxford, Oscar, and UMR. Ryn can also see clients with United HealthCare / Optum, Oxford, Oscar, or UMR who have out-of-network benefits: Ryn bills out-of-network, and you pay your in-network copay. A plan name alone does not guarantee coverage with every therapist. We review the specific plan, clinician participation, and expected cost before the first session.
Peace Love Wellness participates with several insurance networks in New York. Coverage and cost-sharing depend on your plan and clinician, so we review your information before you begin. Private-pay options are also available, with sliding-scale rates available; confirm Karen’s fees with our team.
Insurance & FeesTell us if language, culture, race, gender, sexuality, neurotype, disability, faith, relationship structure, or another lived experience matters to the therapeutic fit. We cannot guarantee a clinician who shares every identity or experience, but we will take your preferences seriously and explain what is currently available.
After you submit the intake form, we review your concerns, preferences, schedule, insurance, and current clinician availability. Inquiries receive a response within two business days, and most new clients have a first session within one to two weeks.
Start the Intake FormOnline therapy in Spanish for adults who want to express themselves in the language that feels most natural.
Therapy in SpanishSupport for family roles, guilt, achievement pressure, belonging, and the experience of moving between worlds.
First-Generation TherapyCare that considers culture, systems, identity, family, and lived experience as part of the clinical picture.
Culturally Responsive TherapyQuestions Queens adults and couples often have about language, location, insurance, and online care.
Yes. Karen Garcia, MHC-LP, offers individual, couples, and family sessions in English or Spanish and is accepting new clients. Michelle Batista, MHC-LP, also offers bilingual care and is currently accepting waitlist requests. Select your language preference on the intake form.
Not necessarily. Bilingual therapy means sessions can take place in more than one language. Culturally responsive therapy also pays attention to culture, identity, systems, family, and lived experience. A shared language or identity can matter, but it does not replace clinical fit.
The practice participates with NYSHIP / The Empire Plan, EmblemHealth, and several other networks. Coverage varies by plan and clinician, and some clinicians cannot bill every network. We review your information before the first session and explain the available options.
Karen Garcia and Zaire Smalls work with teens ages 16+. Karen offers individual, couples, and family sessions in English or Spanish. We do not offer therapy for children younger than 16.
Yes. You can join from any Queens neighborhood if you are physically in New York and have a private, stationary space with a reliable internet connection. Peace Love Wellness does not have an in-person office in Queens.
Clinically reviewed by Cameron Eshgh, LMHC-D on July 31, 2026.
Tell us what you want help with, your language and therapist preferences, your insurance, and your schedule. We will explain the strongest available options.
Peace Love Wellness serves adults and couples in all five boroughs through secure online therapy. Explore the pages for other parts of the city, or the statewide overview.