About Laura
Laura Lien-Mitobe is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, relationship strain, parenting challenges, and life transitions. She brings steady, compassionate support and practical problem-solving to sessions. Her focus includes addictions, trauma and abuse, intimacy issues, eating concerns, self-esteem, and career pressures.
With 30 years of experience, Laura blends several approaches to fit each person's needs. She leans on client-centered care that values the person's perspective.
How Laura works
She also uses cognitive behavioral ideas to spot unhelpful thoughts and acceptance-and-commitment tools to build values-based action. Attachment-based work informs how she addresses patterns in close relationships and family dynamics. Emotionally-focused techniques are used when stronger emotional connection or repair is needed.
Laura adapts methods depending on what the person brings into the room and what they want to change. Sessions are straightforward and practical. People can expect gentle listening, clear explanations, and actionable steps to try between appointments.
She also offers motivational coaching for those who want structured goal work alongside therapy. Laura has worked across many settings and with a wide range of life experiences. She pays special attention to caregiving stress, compassion fatigue, adoption and foster care concerns, aging transitions, and issues like abandonment and attachment difficulties.
Her California practice emphasizes respectful, down-to-earth help for people seeking real change.
Laura lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
What Laura works with
The areas below are the ones Laura selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 30 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, often called ACT, helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It supports choosing actions that match personal values and can help with anxiety, depression, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and changing behaviors that keep problems going. CBT is useful for anxiety, mood concerns, and stress management. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in relationships and how early bonds shape current trust and closeness; it can help with intimacy, family patterns, and long-standing relationship hurts.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with the person to choose or combine methods based on needs, goals, and what feels comfortable. This collaborative planning helps set clear aims and practical steps for progress.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls are good for face-to-face work and exercises that benefit from visual cues. Phone sessions fit when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow ongoing support, brief coaching, or tracking progress between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, and busy schedules while keeping momentum between sessions.
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