About Lilia
Lilia Gonzalez-Joly is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 16 years of clinical experience in California. She focuses on helping people untangle relationship and family difficulties, and she offers support around trauma, self-esteem, and career concerns. Lilia speaks English and Spanish and aims to make the first step toward change feel manageable.
Her approach emphasizes a warm, nonjudgmental space where people can say what they think and feel. Sessions are collaborative - she listens, asks questions, and helps clients find practical ways to move forward.
How Lilia works
Lilia draws on methods that encourage values-based action, clearer communication, and stronger emotional connection. Parents and individuals who feel stuck by past hurt or by repeating patterns often come for help with forgiveness, guilt, or restoring self-worth. She also helps people clarify life purpose and boost motivation at work.
Conversations usually include simple exercises, real-world strategies, and reflection on what matters most to the person. Lilia aims to break down big problems into steps that feel doable. She helps clients practice new ways of relating and making choices that match their values.
Progress is tracked in small changes, not rushed outcomes. People who prefer a respectful, down-to-earth listener find her style approachable. She supports clients through steady, practical work toward a more satisfying life.
Lilia lists 16 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
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
What Lilia works with
The areas below are the ones Lilia selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 16 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying what matters to a person and taking small actions that match those values. It helps when people feel stuck or unsure about life direction. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how past relationships shape current patterns and aims to build safer, more trusting ways of relating. This can be useful for people coping with hurt from close relationships or repeated communication problems.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and will use methods that fit their situation. That collaborative decision helps tailor sessions to the client's needs rather than applying one fixed method.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets people see facial cues for deeper emotional work, phone calls can fit a lunch break or low bandwidth, and chat or text can support brief check-ins or ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help therapy fit into busy lives and make regular progress easier to maintain.
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