About Mai-Han
Mai-Han Dinh is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) in California with 15 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, depression, and big life changes. Her manner is calm and respectful, and she aims to make therapy feel like a safe place to pause and think.
She uses practical approaches to help people notice patterns and try new responses. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to spot thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going.
Background and approach
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is offered for those working through traumatic memories. Mai-Han also draws on motivational interviewing to support decisions and change, and narrative and psychodynamic ideas to understand how life stories shape feelings. Sessions focus on small, doable steps tailored to each person’s goals.
Conversations often include noticing what is working now and experimenting with different ways to respond. Her work covers specific concerns such as abandonment, communication problems, divorce and separation, guilt and shame, impulsivity, and post-traumatic stress. She also supports people dealing with self-love, sexuality, social anxiety, women’s issues, workplace stress, and questions about life purpose.
Sessions are offered in English and Vietnamese and can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. People begin by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling according to availability.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
CBT helps people notice and change thought and behavior patterns that feed anxiety and depression. Online sessions can include tracking thought records, practicing new behaviors, and setting small experiments between meetings to see what works.EMDR supports processing traumatic memories by using guided attention and bilateral stimulation to reduce the intensity of distress. In online work this can mean structured sessions that focus on specific memories and steps to build tolerance and safety before processing.
Motivational interviewing is a conversational method that helps people find their own reasons for change. It is useful when someone feels stuck or unsure about taking next steps, and it fits well into short check-ins or longer video sessions.
Choosing the best approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk about options, try methods that match your goals, and adjust plans based on how you respond. That collaborative process helps tailor therapy to your needs and pace.
Online sessions offer flexibility and make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a short break. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, journaling between appointments, or when typing feels more comfortable. These formats let people continue care from different locations and on varying schedules.
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- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Vietnamese
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