About Lucinda
Lucinda Guarino is a licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) in California with 20 years of experience. She focuses on common life struggles like relationship strain, trauma, grief, and low self-esteem. Her approach is practical and respectful, and she adapts conversations to each person’s situation.
Clients can expect straightforward talk and clear goals. Lucinda helps people move through painful memories, rebuild confidence, and handle major life changes. She listens first and then suggests steps that fit the person’s pace and values.
Background and approach
Her work draws on several methods to match what a person needs. She uses client-centered listening to understand priorities, cognitive behavioral ideas to change harmful thoughts, and EMDR techniques when trauma memories are central. She also brings psychodynamic and motivational interview elements when exploring deeper patterns or finding motivation for change.
Lucinda aims to create a calm, focused space where people can practice new skills. Sessions often include problem-solving, skill practice, and planning for real-life situations. The goal is steady progress rather than quick fixes.
She supports people who are coping with caregiver stress, codependency, communication problems, control issues, and the fallout from domestic violence or family-of-origin pain. She also helps those facing hospice and end-of-life concerns, midlife questions, obsessive-compulsive patterns, and post-traumatic stress. Sessions are offered in English and provided through a range of online formats to fit different schedules and needs.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person’s priorities. The therapist mirrors concerns, asks gentle questions, and helps people name what matters most so goals become clear. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect feelings and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is useful for anxiety, low mood, and repetitive negative thinking. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, abbreviated EMDR, is a method used when past traumatic memories keep causing distress; it pairs guided recall with focused attention to reduce the emotional intensity of those memories.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Lucinda collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. That means trying ideas, checking how they land, and shifting course when something else would be more helpful.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and skill practice. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging make brief check-ins or ongoing support easier to fit into a busy day. These options help people keep therapy consistent while balancing family, work, and other demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also listed
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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