About Lina
Lina Vielma offers a calm, straightforward approach for people dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma, low self-esteem, and relationship or intimacy struggles. She introduces sessions with warmth and clear direction so clients can talk without feeling rushed. Lina is a licensed marriage and family therapist which she uses to guide practical steps forward.
She draws on 20 years of experience to help people name what is happening and try new ways of coping.
How Lina works
Sessions focus on real-life problems like sleep and eating struggles, substance concerns, career strain, or grief. Lina mixes listening with concrete tools so clients leave with something to use right away. Lina uses Attachment-Based work to look at how early relationships shape current patterns.
She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot thinking patterns that increase anxiety or low mood. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is part of her approach for people processing traumatic memories. Her style is caring and direct.
Lina aims to make therapy feel like a steady place to practice different responses to old problems. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Based in California, Lina works in English and brings attention to cultural background in sessions.
People who want a therapist who balances warmth with practical steps may find her approach helpful.
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What Lina works with
The areas below are the ones Lina selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Approaches you can use in online sessions
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds influence current relationships and emotional reactions. In online sessions this approach helps people notice patterns in close relationships and practice new responses to reduce conflict and anxiety. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to improve mood and reduce worry. It is useful for stress, anxiety, sleep and eating struggles and for building concrete coping skills. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, helps people process traumatic memories and lower their intensity; elements of EMDR can be adapted to work over video for people who need trauma-focused care.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Lina will explore your history, goals, and what feels most useful, then together you will pick techniques to try. She aims to match method to your needs rather than use a single formula, and will adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls let you have a full conversation, phone sessions can be a good option if bandwidth is limited, and text or chat work well for short check-ins or when journaling between sessions is helpful. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between meetings.
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