About Lucila
Lucila Coba is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida who uses an integrative, person-focused approach. She blends practical strategies with supportive listening to help people manage stress, anxiety, and relationship strains. Lucila speaks English and Spanish and brings 12 years of experience to sessions.
She helps people facing parenting challenges, changes in life circumstances, and grief. Many clients come for self-esteem work, intimacy-related concerns, or to cope with compassion fatigue.
How Lucila works
Lucila also addresses issues tied to family of origin, communication problems, and divorce or separation. Her work draws from evidence-informed methods such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Client-Centered Therapy. Sessions often include skill practice, values clarification, and straightforward talk about patterns that get in the way.
She aims to help people build habits that fit their daily lives rather than relying on jargon or abstract concepts. Lucila also supports people dealing with abandonment wounds, attachment difficulties, blended family challenges, caregiving stress, and aging-related concerns. She uses motivational interviewing and narrative techniques when a person needs fresh perspective or a push to take small steps forward.
The first sessions focus on identifying goals and practical next steps. People can expect clear suggestions, collaborative planning, and a calm, respectful presence as they work through change.
Lucila lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Lucila works with
The areas below are the ones Lucila selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying what matters most to a person and taking committed steps toward those values. It helps with anxiety, stress, low motivation, and life transitions by teaching practical ways to accept difficult thoughts while moving toward meaningful goals.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. In sessions a person learns to notice unhelpful thinking patterns and try new behaviors to reduce anxiety, improve mood, and handle relationship or parenting challenges.
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship. The therapist listens closely and reflects what matters to the person so they can find their own solutions and build self-trust.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online work uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into daily life. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text provide quick check-ins and flexibility during a busy week. These options let people connect from different places and keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or travel.
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