About Agustin
Agustin Vieyra Ornelas is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in California with 17 years of clinical experience. He focuses on anxiety and related concerns and aims to help people find clearer ways to cope. He speaks English and Spanish and uses practical methods to guide everyday change.
Agustin emphasizes that each person knows their story best. He listens first, then helps identify strengths and small steps that build momentum.
Background and approach
Sessions are straightforward and goal-oriented when needed, or more open when someone needs space to process difficult emotions. He commonly addresses stress, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, and low self-esteem. He also helps with depression, addictions, grief, parenting strain, career shifts, and life changes.
Additional areas he attends to include issues like abandonment, attachment concerns, immigration-related stress, and gender dysphoria. His work draws on client-centered conversation and cognitive behavioral tools to change thinking patterns and behaviors. He also uses solution-focused and motivational methods to support decisions and short-term goals.
When deeper meaning is important, existential ideas help people examine values and purpose. People describe Agustin's approach as empowering and direct. He encourages practical experiments between sessions, such as small behavior changes or communication practices.
Those steps aim to reduce anxiety and increase everyday functioning. To begin, he asks simple questions about current struggles and goals. From there he and the client shape a plan that fits the person's life and schedule.
Approaches for online work and practical change
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's own goals and experience. The therapist listens without judgment and helps you clarify what matters most, which is useful for anxiety and self-esteem concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches specific exercises to test negative thoughts and try new behaviors, often helping with anxiety and depression.
Solution-focused and motivational techniques are used to set small, achievable steps. These methods help when someone needs clear goals and short-term progress, like improving coping skills or making a life change.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will ask about your goals, preferences, and daily life, and then suggest which methods to start with. You and the therapist adjust the plan as you go, aiming for approaches that feel useful and doable.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and visual connection. Phone works well when bandwidth is limited or hands-free time is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit brief check-ins, quick skill practice, or people who prefer typed communication. These formats make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy day.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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