About Abigail
Abigail Gonzalez is a California licensed marriage and family therapist with 30 years of experience. She is bilingual in English and Spanish and brings calm, direct care to people who are feeling overwhelmed. She helps with stress and anxiety, relationship concerns, grief and loss, and low self-esteem.
Abigail focuses on practical steps people can use day to day. She adapts conversations and plans to each person’s pace and needs. Her approach is respectful and compassionate.
How Abigail works
Sessions are shaped around what the person wants to change and how quickly they want to move. Abigail emphasizes building motivation, clearer communication, and coping tools that fit real life.
She also addresses issues that show up across a life span, such as aging and caregiving stress, adoption and foster care experiences, attachment and family of origin concerns, and problems linked to chronic illness or disability. Abigail works on practical skills for dealing with separation, domestic violence aftereffects, and blended family challenges. Abigail uses conversational, goal-focused sessions that make the work manageable.
She supports people who need help sorting feelings, making decisions, or finding new ways to move forward. Sessions are offered in English and Spanish in a format that suits each person.
Abigail lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Abigail works with
The areas below are the ones Abigail selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 30 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Approach and online session options
Abigail uses client-centered conversations to learn what matters most to each person and to guide the pace of work. This approach focuses on listening, understanding your goals, and shaping sessions around your priorities, useful for relationship concerns, grief, and self-esteem struggles.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical techniques to reduce anxiety and improve coping. CBT is often helpful for stress, worry, and changing unhelpful habits.
Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. Abigail will talk with the person about their goals, try methods that fit their style, and adjust plans when needed so the work stays relevant and achievable.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls allow a face-to-face conversation; phone sessions can work when less bandwidth is available or when being on camera is not desired. Live chat or text-based messaging can be useful for quick check-ins, shorter exchanges, or when a written record of the conversation helps someone track progress. These options support scheduling around work, caregiving, or other commitments and make it easier to maintain momentum between meetings.
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