About Lynnetta
Lynnetta Hawkins is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 12 years of clinical experience. She focuses on anxiety, stress, relationships, and sexual concerns, and brings a practical, down-to-earth style to sessions. People come to her when anxiety, depression, or relationship struggles get in the way of daily life.
She favors a client-centered approach that keeps each person’s goals front and center. Lynnetta also uses cognitive behavioral techniques when thoughts and behaviors keep someone stuck.
Background and approach
Mindfulness skills are woven in to help with strong emotions and to build easier ways of coping. Her work history includes time in county behavioral health, where she assessed and supported people in crisis and then joined a psychiatric treatment team.
That experience led to managing an inpatient stabilization unit, giving her wide exposure to severe mood and thought disorders and crisis care. In addition to crisis work, she has provided independent practice therapy both in person and online. She has helped people with eating concerns, addictions, bipolar and depressive conditions, attachment and intimacy problems, and kink or alternative sexual concerns.
She also addresses parenting stress, caregiver strain, and communication problems. Sessions tend to focus on practical tools, specific goals, and steps that can be practiced between meetings. Lynnetta aims to help people build skills, shift perspectives, and move toward clearer hope and greater day-to-day functioning.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy places the person and their goals at the center of every session. The therapist listens closely, follows what matters most to the client, and adjusts the pace and focus to match each person's needs. This approach helps when someone wants to feel heard and to set clear, realistic goals.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, examines how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact. It involves identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and practicing new, more effective behaviors. CBT can be useful for anxiety, depression, and many day-to-day problems that keep people stuck.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships. Mindfulness skills are often part of DBT and help people notice emotions without getting overwhelmed. These tools can be especially helpful when strong reactions or relationship conflict are common.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and preferences. Sessions may blend different techniques until a good fit is found.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit a shorter break or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick check-ins, homework support, or when writing out thoughts feels easier. Together these options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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