About Celina
Celina Hernandez- Ramirez is a licensed clinical social worker in California with six years of practice. She focuses on helping people who feel stressed, anxious, low in confidence, or stuck in life transitions. She offers support for relationship strain, parenting concerns, grief, trauma, and career stress.
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish. Her work begins by listening. She treats each person as the expert on their own life and looks for strengths to build on.
Background and approach
Conversations aim to identify small, practical steps that produce change. Motivation and clarity are common early goals. Celina uses a mix of approaches based on what each person needs.
She draws on client-centered methods that prioritize the person’s view and solution-focused strategies that target immediate problems. When relationship issues come up she brings techniques from the Gottman Method. Over six years she has worked with people facing trauma, grief, adoption and foster care concerns, immigration-related stress, postpartum depression, caregiving strain, and aging or end-of-life issues.
She also supports those dealing with ADHD, compassion fatigue, and multicultural challenges. Therapy with her is practical and collaborative. Together clients set goals, try new ways of communicating, and practice skills between sessions.
The aim is clearer thinking, steadier emotions, and better daily functioning.
How specific approaches are used online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and reflecting what matters to the person. The therapist follows the client’s lead and helps them put words to their experience, which can reduce anxiety and increase clarity. The Gottman Method provides tools for improving communication and resolving recurring relationship problems. It is useful when couples or partners need practical skills to manage conflict and rebuild trust. Motivational Interviewing helps people find their own reasons to change. It supports motivation for goals like reducing avoidance, improving self-care, or sticking with new habits. Choosing an approach is a shared process. The therapist will discuss options and tailor methods to the client’s goals, needs, and comfort. Sessions may combine techniques so the plan fits the person rather than forcing a single method. Online sessions offer flexibility for different schedules and needs. Video calls are good for detailed conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow quick questions, brief updates, and ongoing support between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to keep therapy consistent amid busy or changing lives.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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