Iamina Stoian
Helping families find practical solutions
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed in
- New York
- Languages
- English, Romanian
- Format
- Online sessions
About Iamina
Iamina Stoian is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York who helps parents and families facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, and life transitions. She also supports people dealing with trauma, low self-esteem, depression, ADHD, and burnout. She speaks both English and Romanian and draws on a decade of clinical work to guide people through hard moments.
Her style is straightforward and practical. She listens first and then works with each person to set clear, manageable goals.
Background and approach
Sessions often include problem-solving steps and simple skills to use at home. She leans on cognitive behavioral tools when they match a person's needs. Iamina uses several therapy approaches and adjusts them to fit the situation.
She blends client-centered techniques with mindfulness and narrative work to help people make sense of painful experiences. Motivational interviewing is used when someone needs help finding the energy to change long-standing habits. In sessions she focuses on understanding what causes stress in daily life and building small, steady changes.
That can mean learning to spot unhelpful thinking, practicing calm body-based skills, or reworking how family members talk to each other. She aims for clear, achievable steps rather than long lectures. Her license is NY LMHC 009549, and she brings ten years of experience to family and parenting concerns.
Parents looking for flexible session formats can expect a mix of conversational support and skill-building tailored to their situation.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening without judgment and building a trusting relationship, helping people feel heard and understood so they can explore family and parenting struggles more openly. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change unhelpful reactions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That might mean starting with CBT exercises, adding mindfulness practice, or using narrative techniques to make sense of family stories. Decisions are made together and adjusted as progress is reviewed.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which can make scheduling easier for busy families. These options allow sessions to happen from home, between commitments, or while traveling, and they support different communication styles from face-to-face conversation to short check-ins by message. Licensed professionals and therapists use these formats to maintain continuity of care and to offer flexible ways to work on parenting and family concerns.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English, Romanian
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