About Shahla
Shahla Raboubi is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 29 years of practice in California. She offers a warm, practical style and adapts her approach to fit each person's needs. Shahla speaks English and Persian and draws on long experience in community mental health and independent practice.
She commonly helps people cope with anxiety and stress, depression, grief, trauma, relationship struggles, and parenting challenges. Shahla also supports people facing addiction, career shifts, bipolar concerns, and major life changes.
Background and approach
Her work includes attention to attachment, communication, boundaries, and self-esteem. Her sessions often use cognitive behavioral ideas to address thinking patterns and behaviors that increase anxiety. She also draws on attachment-based and emotionally focused ways of understanding relationships and closeness.
Narrative and existential perspectives help people make sense of identity, meaning, and life transitions. Shahla aims for clear, down-to-earth conversations. She focuses on practical steps clients can try between sessions while also making space to process feelings.
Sessions may include problem-solving, reflection on relationship patterns, and building coping skills for daily life. She holds a Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy and a Master of Psychology in applied psychology, and she has pursued PhD study in clinical psychology. Shahla is licensed in California as an LMFT.
To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule appointments based on availability.
Online approaches that fit real-life anxiety and relationships
Attachment-based work focuses on how early and current relationships shape feelings of safety and closeness. This approach helps people understand patterns in their relationships and build more supported ways of connecting.Client-centered therapy puts the person's experience at the center and emphasizes listening, empathy, and the client's own goals. It can be helpful for people who need a steady, accepting space to explore feelings and make choices.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets thoughts and behaviors that maintain anxiety and low mood. It involves practical exercises, such as experimenting with new thinking patterns and trying small behavioral changes between sessions.
Finding the right approach is a process. Shahla works with clients to decide which methods fit best based on individual goals, needs, and preferences. She blends techniques when that better serves the person's situation and checks in regularly about progress.
Online sessions are available as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat lets someone type in the moment, and messaging supports short check-ins or ongoing coaching. These options make scheduling easier and help therapy fit into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 29 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Persian
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