Conner Gregorio, Registered Associate MFT (#161639)*
Mindfulness-Based Multicultural Therapist
Conner utilizes a collaborative and humanistic approach to therapy, with experience working with college students, emerging adults, and multicultural individuals as they explore identity, navigate life transitions, and define a life that feels both grounded and meaningful.
His work weaves together the mind and body, drawing from bottom-up mindfulness approaches and top-down cognitive frameworks to help clients heal through understanding their thought patterns, regulate their nervous systems, and develop tools that enable them to safely engage with life with a sense of direction, curiosity, and adventure.
At the heart of Conner's work is creating an intentional space where clients can show up as they are and be met with curiosity, not judgment
Individuals (50 min.): $150
Couples/Families (60 min.): $180
* Supervised by Kenneth Mallon, LMFT #133288
Individual Counseling for Emerging Adults and College Students
Life is challenging - you don't have to navigate it alone.
I'm Conner, passionate about working alongside emerging adults and college students as they navigate academic stress, identity exploration, uncertainty about the future, finding where they belong, and the many questions that come with discovering what it means to become an adult.
Therapy becomes a space to slow down, notice the patterns driving the pressure, and build a clearer sense of direction - together, at a pace that feels right for you.
College presents a time when nearly all aspects of life seem to surface at once. You may find yourself asking - or being asked - questions like:
What do I want to do with my life?
What am I passionate about enough to build a career on? Where do I belong in my environment?
Who am I attracted to, romantically or platonically?
Who do I want to become?
If this feels like a lot to carry, that's because it is - and you don't have to carry it alone. This season of uncertainty isn't a sign that something's wrong with you. It's simply part of this stage of life, and it's something we can move through together.
What to expect:
- Start where you are: a free consultation with no pressure to have anything figured out yet
- Sessions that blend practical tools with deeper exploration - shaped around your goals and your story, not a one-size-fits-all approach
- Support building the psychological flexibility to sit with uncertainty and still move forward, alongside space to notice the patterns keeping you stuck
- Conversation guided by compassionate curiosity, support grounded in evidence-based practices without judgment, as you find your way through
Grief Counseling
Loss is a universal and powerful experience, yet it is seldom given the space to be fully felt.
Grief is an experience that's often never the same, even for two people experiencing the same loss. This can leave you feeling like you won't be understood, which often leads to social withdrawal at exactly the moment connection may be needed.
Your grief might come from the death of someone you love, the end of a meaningful relationship, a move to a new place, the loss of a job, or another change that's reshaped your life.
Whatever form it takes, I offer a space where it doesn't have to be explained, minimized, or rushed - just welcomed, gently and fully. However long it takes, and however it shows up for you, that's okay here.
You might be looking for support with:
- The loss of a loved one, relationship, or life stage
- Grief that others expect you to have "moved on" from
- Anticipatory grief, or the ambiguous loss that follows
- Feeling isolated because your grief doesn't look like what others expect
What to expect:
- A space that moves at your pace - no fixed timeline, and no pressure to "move on" before you're ready
- Support exploring how loss is showing up for you while finding ways to build a life that feels meaningful alongside it without feeling the need to “just move on”
- A steady, compassionate, non-judgemental presence throughout the processing of grief
Nervous System-Informed Regulation Therapy
Feeling safe in your own body isn't a luxury - it's something every one of us deserves.
Between academic, work, and relational responsibilities, it's easy to lose touch with the vital priority of feeling safe and regulated that our nervous systems require. Over time, this can leave the nervous system in disarray, seemingly disconnecting the mind from our body - quietly shaping how we think, feel, and show up in our lives, often without us realizing it.
When our nervous system becomes consistently dysregulated, we may experience:
- Racing thoughts, restlessness, or difficulty sitting still
- Trouble sleeping or constant fatigue
- Irritability or feeling "on edge" without a clear reason
- Difficulty concentrating or feeling foggy
- Muscle tension or physical discomfort
- Feeling stuck in fight, flight, freeze, or shutdown
Together, we'll draw on gentle, body-based approaches alongside cognitive tools to help you recognize what dysregulation feels like for you, and build practical, compassionate ways back to a felt sense of safety - so you can meet life from a grounded place instead of a reactive one.
What to expect:
- Intentional, bottom-up approaches, drawing on mindfulness and somatic informed approaches, to regulate your nervous system strengthening the connection between mind and body
- Support recognizing your own signs of dysregulation, so you can observe them earlier and build tools to provide yourself with the care you and your body deserve
- Mindful and somatic-informed activities woven throughout our work, to build awareness of what's happening in your body from moment to moment and release tense energy
- A collaborative pace that honors what feels safe for you, session by session
Culturally Responsive and Informed Counseling
You shouldn't have to leave part of yourself at the door to be cared for.
In many care settings, clients learn to set their culture aside to be seen or understood - trimming down who they are to fit the room. Here, your culture isn't something to leave at the door. It's essential to understand how to best support you, as you actually are.
Many clients carry the quiet weight of holding space to honor family and cultural expectations while also feeling a pull to explore their individuality. That tension, known as cultural dissonance, isn't something broken that needs fixing. It's something worth holding with care and understanding on its own terms.
My background as Hispanic and Asian American/Pacific Islander isn't a credential I bring to this work - it's a lived understanding of what it means to carry more than one culture at once, and to navigate balancing their importance.
I approach this work with compassion and an open heart, never asking you to choose between your culture and yourself.
That means making room for collective, family-centered values alongside your own individual identity, honoring the layers of generational and cultural experience you carry, and never treating your background as something to explain away or move past.
You might be navigating:
- Balancing family, cultural, or social expectations with your own path
- Bicultural identity, or feeling caught between two worlds
- Generational differences in values, communication, or expression
- Wanting a therapist who won't need your background explained from scratch
What to expect:
- A space where your culture is welcomed in the room, never something to explain or justify
- Gentle support noticing the thought patterns shaped by family or cultural expectations, and working with them at your own pace
- Tools to help you sit with the discomfort that can come with cultural or family conflict, without losing yourself in it
- Ongoing reflection on what matters most to you, so the path forward reflects your own values