Laura Lien-Mitobe
Understanding family challenges with steady support
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Laura
Laura Lien-Mitobe is a licensed marriage and family therapist with three decades of experience. She focuses on family and parenting concerns along with stress, anxiety, grief, relationship struggles, addiction, and other life changes. Laura aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where parents and partners can talk through what’s hurting and decide practical next steps.
Her style is straightforward and warm, with an emphasis on pacing the work to each person’s needs.
Background and approach
Laura uses several common therapy methods and adjusts them to the situation. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people identify values and take small steps toward them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used when thoughts and habits are getting in the way.
Attachment-based ideas guide work around relationship patterns and family dynamics. Over a long career she has worked with individuals, couples, families, and groups. That experience informs how she helps parents manage burnout, grief, or difficult transitions.
She also brings experience supporting people with compassion fatigue and those navigating adoption, blended families, or caregiving stress. Laura is licensed in California as LMFT CA 17434. She offers sessions in English and provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
International clients are not accepted. Getting started involves completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session. Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time, and cost varies with location and therapist availability.
Therapy approaches and online sessions for families and parents
Laura often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy in her online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values, which can help with stress, anxiety, and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in relationships and family dynamics to improve connection and communication, which is often useful for parenting and couple issues.Finding the best approach is usually a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. These options make it easier to schedule around childcare, work, and busy family life. Many parents find the flexibility helps them keep therapy consistent while managing day-to-day responsibilities.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- 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)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
Next step
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