About Silvie
Silvie Wilson is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) based in California with 11 years of clinical experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, and struggles with self-esteem and motivation. She also supports concerns like addictions, sleep and eating issues, parenting stress, career change, and ADHD.
Silvie draws on approaches that emphasize relationships and emotional experience. She uses attachment-based work and emotionally-focused methods to help people understand patterns in close relationships.
Background and approach
She pairs those with client-centered listening so sessions are guided by each person's goals and pace. She also brings cognitive behavioral strategies and skills from dialectical behavior therapy for practical tools. Those techniques help with coping, managing intense emotions, and changing unhelpful thoughts or behaviors.
Sessions often mix talking with specific exercises to practice between meetings. Silvie has experience working with Spanish speakers and with teens and young adults. She sometimes uses personality tools such as Myers-Briggs and the Enneagram when a client wants them, and she can discuss astrology if a client finds that useful.
Her aim is to help people name their strengths, find workable strategies, and build confidence in moving forward. She frames therapy as a collaborative process where the client leads and the therapist offers guidance and skills.
How attachment and skills-based approaches work online
Silvie uses attachment-based work to look at how past relationship patterns affect current feelings and behavior; this helps when anxiety, trust, or intimacy issues come up. She also uses client-centered therapy to keep sessions focused on a person's goals, offering an open, nonjudgmental space where the client steers the conversation. Cognitive behavioral therapy adds concrete tools for changing unhelpful thoughts and practicing new behaviors between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Silvie will talk with each person about their concerns, goals, and preferences, then suggest a mix of methods that fit. The plan can shift over time as needs change, and decisions about techniques are made collaboratively.
Online therapy through video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging offers flexibility. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth, and chat or messaging can serve for brief check-ins or ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to maintain momentum and to practice skills in daily life.
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What this therapist works with
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- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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