About Laura
Laura Lien-Mitobe is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 30 years of experience helping people cope with stress, anxiety, grief, relationship strain, and parenting challenges. She creates a calm, accepting space for people to talk through painful feelings and confusing patterns. Laura listens without judgment and works at the client’s pace.
Her approach is straightforward and practical. She mixes talk therapy with concrete tools that people can use between sessions.
Background and approach
Common techniques include cognitive restructuring to spot unhelpful thoughts and strategies from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and take workable steps toward them. Laura also uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current bonds, and emotionally-focused methods when couples or partners need help reconnecting.
Sessions focus on understanding what matters to each person and finding ways to change small behaviors that make daily life easier. She has supported people through addiction and codependency issues, compassion fatigue, career stress, and significant life changes such as divorce or bereavement. She pays attention to body image, intimacy concerns, and the fallout from trauma and abuse.
For people facing ADHD, aging transitions, adoption and foster care questions, or caregiver stress, she offers steady guidance. Laura practices in California as an LMFT and offers sessions in English. She aims to work collaboratively so goals stay practical and realistic, with steps clients can try between meetings.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice stuck patterns and choose actions that match their values. In practice this means learning small exercises to reduce avoidance and move toward a life that feels meaningful. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments to lower anxiety and improve mood.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss options, try techniques in session, and adjust based on what feels helpful. Clients and the therapist set goals together and pick methods that match the person’s needs and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets people read facial cues and do typical talk therapy work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text messaging work well for shorter check-ins, quick coping strategies, or when someone prefers writing over speaking. These options help fit therapy into busy lives and different schedules.
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What this therapist works with
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- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- 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)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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