Lina Vielma
Calm, practical support for stressful times
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Lina
Lina Vielma is a licensed marriage and family therapist who focuses on supporting people dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma, and parenting concerns. She brings a calm, compassionate presence to sessions and aims to make a worried parent feel heard and understood. Sessions are steady and intentional, with an emphasis on practical steps that can help day-to-day life.
Lina uses clear, straightforward conversation to help clients sort through painful memories and current struggles.
Background and approach
She offers tools for managing strong emotions, improving self-esteem, and addressing addictive behaviors. When trauma is present, she draws on methods that help process distressing events and reduce their hold on daily functioning. Her work combines emotion-focused listening with structured skills practice.
That means clients can expect space to tell their story and also work on concrete strategies like breathing techniques, thought exercises, and behavior changes. Lina aims to tailor her pace to each person so progress feels manageable. With 20 years of clinical experience and the LMFT credential (Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist), she practices in California.
She speaks English and integrates awareness of cultural background into conversations when it’s relevant to the client’s concerns. Her style is supportive but honest, offering both validation and gentle challenge. People who choose Lina often want practical coping skills alongside empathetic listening.
She helps clients set small, realistic goals and build routines that support better sleep, clearer thinking, and healthier relationships. The overall aim is steady, sustainable change rather than quick fixes.
How specific approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early connections shape current relationships. Online work with this approach helps people notice patterns in closeness, trust, and emotional response, and then practice new ways of connecting and setting boundaries.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. In remote sessions, clients learn practical exercises for mood, sleep, and anxiety and then apply those exercises between appointments while tracking progress together.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is used to process traumatic memories so they feel less overwhelming. When adapted for online work, EMDR protocols can be guided verbally with approved bilateral stimulation techniques and careful pacing to match each person’s comfort level.
Lina approaches choosing a method as a team effort. She will talk with each client about symptoms, history, and goals, then recommend one or a blend of approaches. That collaborative planning helps ensure the method fits the person’s needs and preferences rather than imposing a single style.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from home, phone sessions remove travel barriers, and live chat or text messaging supports shorter check-ins or follow-up between meetings. These formats make it easier to keep therapy consistent around school, work, and family obligations, while still working on emotion regulation, trauma processing, and daily coping skills.
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.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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