Dr. Priscilla Sobremonte
Family-focused care with practical tools
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Priscilla
Dr. Priscilla Sobremonte uses a client-centered approach to guide parents and families through difficult times. She listens first, then helps families set goals and try practical steps.
Her style is straightforward and focused on what will change day-to-day life. Dr. Sobremonte is a licensed clinical social worker with 24 years of experience in mental health care in California.
She began her career after serving 11 years in the United States Air Force and earning a Master of Social Work.
Background and approach
Early work included supporting children with severe emotional needs and collaborating with juvenile justice systems. That experience led to roles in county mental health, corrections, and large health systems where she worked with children, adolescents, families, and adults in a range of settings. Her background includes work in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation with inpatient and outpatient populations.
She has supported veterans in medical social work and coordinated clinical programs. She also provided therapy at Kaiser Permanente, including crisis intake and family work. In independent practice since 2006, Dr.
Sobremonte blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and other methods with a client-centered way of planning treatment. She uses techniques that fit each family’s needs, including mindfulness and motivational interviewing when helpful. She also offers narrative journaling tools she developed to help people make sense of their experiences.
She works on issues parents often bring up - stress, parenting struggles, grief, anxiety, and trauma. Sessions can address practical parenting strategies, coping with life changes, and improving family communication.
Approaches that translate well to online family work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening carefully to each family member and shaping sessions around their goals. It helps parents and caregivers name priorities and decide on steps that feel doable. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills for stress, anxiety, sleep, and behavior changes. It is useful when parents want concrete tools to try between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to choose methods that match a family's needs, preferences, and goals. That might mean combining CBT skills with mindfulness practices or using narrative journaling to make sense of painful events. Treatment plans are adjusted as progress and challenges become clearer.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Families can access sessions from home, fit therapy around school and work schedules, and use shorter check-ins when needed. These formats make it easier to maintain continuity of care and practice new skills in real-life settings while staying connected with a licensed professional.
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.
Existential Therapy
Takes the larger questions seriously: meaning, choice, mortality, responsibility. Suited to periods when the difficulty is less a symptom than a sense that something has to change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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