About Cecilia
Cecilia Samartin is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with two decades of experience helping people navigate relationship strain, grief, parenting challenges, low self-esteem, and big life changes. She talks plainly about what’s causing stress and helps clients find practical steps forward. Her style is warm and steady, focused on what matters now.
Cecilia draws on client-centered work to make space for each person’s experience. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thought patterns and try small behavior changes.
Background and approach
Narrative methods help clients rewrite the stories they tell about themselves, and psychodynamic ideas examine how past experiences shape present reactions. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. Cecilia listens first, then offers experiments and tools people can practice between meetings.
She helps clients set clear, manageable goals and checks progress together each session. Her approach suits people who want both understanding and practical change. She pays attention to attachment and family of origin issues when they come up, and she addresses topics like abandonment, commitment, codependency, body image, and caregiver stress.
Practicing in California, Cecilia works with adults over time to build skills for healthier relationships and steadier mood. Her background includes long-term clinical work and a commitment to helping people turn painful experiences into new direction.
How different approaches work in online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the client’s lead. It helps people feel heard and understood, and it creates space to figure out what matters most in relationships and life decisions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact. It teaches specific strategies to change unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors, which can help with anxiety, self-esteem, and coping with change.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Cecilia will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then suggest options to try together. She checks in regularly to see what is helping and adjusts the plan as needed.
Online formats give practical flexibility. Video calls let people see facial cues for deeper conversation. Phone sessions work well when lower bandwidth or less screen time is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework support, and steady contact between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep consistent momentum toward goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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