Lynn Novatt
Calm guidance for practical change
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Lynn
Lynn Novatt is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 17 years of combined therapy and coaching experience. She blends clinical training with life and leadership coaching to bring practical tools and careful listening to sessions. Lynn aims to help people feel seen, heard, and supported as they take steps toward change.
Her manner is calm and encouraging, with straightforward feedback when it helps the work move forward. She trained in spiritual psychology and brings that perspective alongside evidence-based techniques.
Background and approach
In sessions she often uses Cognitive-Behavioral tools to address unhelpful thought patterns. She also draws on mindfulness and positive psychology practices to build resilience and lift mood. Lynn frames therapy as a collaborative process.
She offers exercises and assignments when a client wants hands-on, task-oriented work. These can include writing prompts, worksheets, short audios, or reading suggestions to practice between sessions. The practice focuses on stress, anxiety, parenting, self-esteem, coping with life changes, and coaching.
Lynn also addresses related concerns like communication problems, control issues, forgiveness, guilt and shame, loneliness, life purpose, money issues, and self-love. Sessions are geared toward practical change rather than abstract theory. Sessions are offered in English and conducted online through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Lynn is licensed in California as CA LMFT 79846 and brings a direct, compassionate approach to help clients move toward clearer choices and steady progress.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
CBT - Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy helps identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is practical and skill-based, often used for anxiety, stress, and low self-esteem issues.Mindfulness and Positive Psychology - Mindfulness teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity, while positive psychology focuses on strengths and small daily habits that lift mood and build resilience. Both approaches are useful for coping with life changes and building self-love.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences, try methods that fit, and adjust plans based on what helps. That process is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs.
Online sessions offer flexibility for people with busy schedules. Video calls let the therapist and client work face to face from different locations. Phone sessions provide another live option when video is not possible. Live chat and text-based messaging make brief check-ins and written exercises easy to use between sessions. Together these formats make it simpler to fit focused, practical work into everyday life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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