About Lina
Lina Vielma is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 20 years of clinical experience. She offers a warm, steady presence for people dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma, relationship strain, and changes in life. Lina speaks English and works from California as a California LMFT.
Her sessions aim to be calm and straightforward. She listens first to understand what matters to each person. Then she helps people sort out feelings, notice patterns, and try practical steps to feel better.
Background and approach
Sessions move at a pace that feels manageable. Over two decades Lina has worked with many concerns including self-esteem, grief, addiction, anger, sleep and eating issues, and challenges tied to parenting and career shifts. She also addresses topics such as ADHD, compassion fatigue, and concerns that follow trauma and abuse.
Her background includes attention to cultural identity and how it shapes a person’s experience. Lina draws on several well-known approaches to tailor care to each person. She uses techniques that help people learn new coping skills, process difficult memories, and build stronger connections with themselves and others.
Therapy sessions combine practical strategies with compassionate support. People who choose Lina can expect a thoughtful, goal-focused process. She will challenge unhelpful patterns and encourage steps toward more stable daily routines and relationships.
The aim is clearer thinking, fewer intense reactions, and more ability to move forward.
How Lina’s Approaches Work Online
Attachment-based work focuses on safety in relationships and helps people notice how early bonds affect current trust and closeness. It can be useful for people who struggle with connection, intimacy-related issues, or fear of abandonment.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. It helps people learn practical skills to manage anxiety, sleep and eating problems, low mood, and difficult reactions to stress.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, known as EMDR, is a method used to process distressing memories and reduce their emotional hold. It is often used for trauma and abuse related symptoms and can be adapted to work in online sessions.
Choosing the right approach is collaborative. Lina will talk with each person about goals, symptoms, and preferences, and then suggest which methods to try first. She often blends techniques so treatment matches what the person needs and wants.
Online work is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video is helpful for face-to-face conversation and teaching new coping skills. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or texting can suit brief check-ins, daily coaching, or times when typing feels simpler than talking. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing work, family, and day-to-day life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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