About Lucila
Lucila Coba is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida with 12 years of clinical experience. She speaks English and Spanish and offers a calm, practical approach for people facing stress and anxiety. She focuses on problems like relationships, parenting strain, grief, self esteem, and big life changes.
Her style mixes practical tools with compassionate listening. Sessions often include learning new ways to handle uncomfortable thoughts and feelings. She helps people notice what matters most and take small steps toward those values.
Background and approach
Lucila uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and change behavior. She blends that with mindfulness practices so people can become less reactive and more present. Motivational interviewing is used to boost readiness for change and set realistic goals.
Many clients bring issues tied to family history, attachment, or communication problems. She also supports people coping with caregiver stress, aging concerns, heartbreak, or the aftermath of separation and loss. The work is practical and task-focused when needed, and reflective when people want to explore patterns.
Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person's needs. Lucila emphasizes small, achievable steps and clear strategies for everyday life. She aims to make therapy feel useful from the start.
Practical approaches for online care
Lucila blends cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness methods to help people manage anxiety and life stress. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce distress and improve day-to-day functioning. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices so strong emotions feel less overwhelming and decisions come from clarity rather than reactivity.She treats therapy as a joint process. Together the therapist and client will try approaches, see what fits, and adapt techniques to the person's goals and lifestyle. That collaborative pacing makes it easier to try new skills and keep what works.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different routines. Video lets people work visually and practice skills in real time. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and text messaging allow brief check-ins, quick coaching, or ongoing contact between longer sessions. These options make it simpler to build regular habits and apply strategies in daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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