About Gian
Gian Sarabia is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in California who helps people manage anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship concerns. He speaks English and Spanish and draws on six years of clinical experience to support people working through emotional strain. He aims to create a respectful, sensitive space for clients to begin healing.
Gian uses straightforward conversation to understand each person's situation. He tailors the approach to what matters most to the client and to their goals.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps people can try between meetings as well as on understanding patterns that keep problems going. His work includes approaches that help with thinking, feeling, and relating. He offers tools for reducing worry, managing mood swings, and coping with past hurts.
He also helps people address relationship and intimacy challenges and issues tied to identity and sexuality. Gian has experience addressing complex concerns such as addiction, ADHD, chronic illness, attachment issues, and body image. He also supports people facing career stress, sleep problems, and caregiver strain.
His practice includes attention to how past abandonment, communication struggles, or blended family dynamics affect current life. People can expect a collaborative process that mixes talk, behavioral strategies, and skill practice. Gian uses methods like cognitive behavioral techniques and acceptance-focused work alongside emotion-centered and attachment-informed approaches.
He encourages steady progress and adapts the plan as needs change.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice their thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then take actions that match their values. ACT can be useful for anxiety, stress, and difficulty with motivation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, which often helps with worry, mood problems, and sleep issues. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people build healthier ways of relating to others.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Gian collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. He checks in and adjusts the plan over time so the therapy stays useful and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for deeper conversation and exercises. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat or text messaging can be helpful for brief check-ins, skill reminders, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options aim to increase flexibility and make it simpler to keep therapy part of a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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