Cecilia Samartin, LMFT

Cecilia Samartin is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California with 20 years of clinical experience. She focuses on relationship strain, grief, parenting stress, self-esteem, and coping with life changes. Cecilia speaks English and works with adults who are looking for practical ways to manage difficult situations at home.

Cecilia uses a straightforward, conversational approach in sessions. She listens first, then helps people name what feels most urgent. She often combines client-centered listening with techniques that look at thoughts and stories that keep problems stuck. Sessions tend to focus on real-life steps people can try between meetings.

Her background includes long-term clinical work with a wide range of concerns related to attachment, blended family issues, caregiver stress, codependency, communication problems, and divorce or separation. That experience informs how she recognizes patterns that repeat across relationships and daily life.

In practice she uses ideas from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, and Solution-Focused Therapy to shape conversations. She helps people notice the stories they tell themselves, test unhelpful beliefs, and try small experiments to change behavior.

Cecilia emphasizes practical meaning-making rather than technical labels. In sessions she will help clients clarify values, set achievable goals, and plan concrete steps for handling parenting strain, anger, loss, or major life transitions. Her aim is steady progress over time.

People who choose her often want clear talk, purposeful homework, and a therapist who pays attention to the patterns that affect family life.

How her approaches are used in online sessions