Lina Vielma, LMFT

Lina Vielma is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California with 20 years of experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, parenting concerns, anger, self-esteem struggles, addictions, relationship difficulties, grief, intimacy issues, sleep and eating problems, career questions, bipolar disorder, and coping with life changes.

Clients can expect direct, steady conversation about what feels most pressing at home. She uses practical strategies and guided discussion to help people notice patterns, try new responses, and manage strong feelings. Sessions move at a pace the client chooses, with clear goals and small steps between meetings.

Her background includes long-term clinical work supporting people through trauma, loss, and difficult relationships. Lina draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early connections affect present relationships. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to shift thinking and behavior, dialectical behavior therapy tools for emotion regulation, and EMDR for processing traumatic memories when appropriate.

She names cultural identity as part of how she understands a person, acknowledging Navajo and Filipino heritage as meaningful to some clients' stories. Lina pays attention to how caregiving roles, blended family dynamics, and fatherhood issues can complicate everyday life.

Work in sessions can include skill practice, reworking harmful patterns, and focused trauma processing. People often come for short-term coaching around parenting or career decisions, or for longer work on longstanding struggles such as addiction or grief.

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