About Jilla
Jilla Lavian is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in California with 20 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, or big life changes. Her style is direct and compassionate, aimed at practical steps that fit daily life.
Clients can expect a calm space to talk through feelings and figure out what matters most. Jilla listens closely and helps name patterns that get in the way of feeling steady.
Background and approach
She uses clear tools to address sleep disruptions, low self-esteem, anger, and work stress so people can feel more in control. Her work blends cognitive behavioral ideas with mindfulness and psychodynamic perspectives. That means she helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, practice being present, and understand where old feelings may be coming from.
She also uses motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques to set realistic goals and track progress. Jilla draws on two decades of clinical experience and training as a transformational life coach. She helps with family and parenting concerns by supporting individual coping, boundary setting, and communication skills.
She also addresses caregiver strain, cultural and immigration issues, and feelings of isolation or emptiness. Sessions are offered in English and Persian. Jilla meets with people in California and offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging as ways to connect and move forward.
How Jilla brings therapy online with practical approaches
Jilla uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thought and behavior patterns. CBT often includes simple exercises and experiments to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and ease low mood.She also uses mindfulness therapy to teach skills for staying present and reducing emotional reactivity. Mindfulness practices can be short and practical, helping with stress, rumination, and caregiving strain. Motivational interviewing is another tool she uses to help people find personal reasons to change and to set small, doable steps toward goals.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Jilla will discuss your goals and preferences and adapt methods as you go. Together you decide whether to focus on thoughts and behaviors, mindfulness skills, motivation, or a mix of techniques based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for a fuller conversation and guided exercises, phone can work when bandwidth is low, live chat is good for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep progress moving forward.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Persian
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