About Yanina
Yanina Lambert, LMFT, helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, depression, or relationship strain. She works with clients facing trauma, addictions, grief, and parenting or intimacy concerns. Sessions are offered in English and Spanish and can address a wide range of life challenges.
Yanina brings 20 years of clinical experience as a California licensed marriage and family therapist. She meets people where they are and focuses on practical steps that bring relief.
Background and approach
Many clients come for help with worry, sleep problems, low self-esteem, or career and family stress. Her style is warm and direct. She listens first, then helps people notice patterns that get in the way.
Together they practice simple skills to reduce distress and improve communication. The work is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. Yanina uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to change unhelpful thinking and behavior.
She also draws on acceptance and commitment therapy to help people clarify values and take meaningful action. Attachment-based ideas and client-centered principles guide how she builds a trusting working relationship. She has experience supporting people through complex issues like chronic illness, addiction, codependency, and blended family concerns.
She also addresses eating and body-image struggles, anger, bipolar-related challenges, and intimate relationship problems. International clients may book sessions and multiple online formats are available.
Therapeutic approaches and online delivery
Yanina commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy in her online work. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on spotting and changing thoughts and behaviors that fuel anxiety and depression, and it often includes practice exercises between sessions. Acceptance and commitment therapy helps people notice painful feelings, clarify what matters most to them, and take steps toward those values even when emotions are uncomfortable.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they decide which strategies to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers a range of practical options: video calls for fuller conversation and visual cues, phone sessions when video is not possible or bandwidth is limited, live chat for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between appointments. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules and let people choose the way that feels most comfortable for them.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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