About Lynaia
Lynaia Freund is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California with over 21 years of clinical experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, trauma, and addiction. Her work centers on steady support and practical steps so people can move forward in daily life.
She uses approaches that match a person’s pace and needs. EMDR can help when painful memories or emotions feel stuck. Client-centered work focuses on what the person brings and what they want to change.
Background and approach
Mindfulness techniques teach simple ways to manage intense feelings in the moment. Freund spent many years working in hospital settings, including long service as a clinical hospital chaplain at a major trauma center. That background shaped how she supports people through loss, crisis, and major life changes.
She also has extensive experience helping people in addiction recovery, both in medical rehab and independent practice. In sessions she aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where someone can talk through hard things and try new coping strategies. She also integrates personal values and spiritual concerns when those topics matter to the person seeking help.
People who reach out can expect a practical focus on symptoms and daily functioning. The therapist offers tools for handling panic, improving sleep and mood, reducing compulsive behaviors, and repairing motivation and self-worth. Progress is paced to fit each person’s goals and comfort level.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-centered therapy puts the person’s concerns first and emphasizes listening, collaboration, and goals they set. Online sessions let the therapist follow what matters most to the client and adapt pacing and exercises to each person’s needs.Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing - EMDR - is used to reduce the intensity of painful memories and images. In remote sessions EMDR can be guided through eye movements or other bilateral stimulation and can help with trauma, panic, and lingering painful memories.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce overwhelming emotion and ground someone in the present moment. These short practices often fit well into a video or phone session and can be practiced between meetings.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust as progress is made. That collaborative process helps decide whether EMDR, mindfulness, or client-centered work is the best fit.
Online formats offer real flexibility. Video calls let people use body language and guided exercises, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed, and live chat or text-based messaging can support brief check-ins or ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life.
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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