Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
How Lina works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Licensed in
- California
- Years in practice
- 20
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Lina
Lina Vielma is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 20 years of experience helping people manage stress, anger, anxiety, and trauma. She offers a steady, compassionate presence and focuses on practical steps that people can use day to day. Her approach aims to help people feel understood while building skills to cope and move forward.
Lina creates a calm space where clients can name difficult feelings without pressure. Sessions are paced to match each person's readiness, and she balances listening with gentle challenges that encourage change.
Background and approach
Work often includes learning new ways to respond when stress or anger flare up. Her clinical work draws on attachment-based ideas, client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral tools, dialectical behavior strategies, and EMDR. Those approaches are used to address trauma, emotional regulation, relationships, and patterns that keep people stuck.
She explains techniques in plain language and practices them together with clients. Over two decades in California, Lina has supported people facing grief, addiction, parenting stresses, career shifts, and compassion fatigue. She also attends to concerns such as body image, codependency, and first responder issues when relevant.
Her goal is to help people develop clear coping plans they can use outside sessions. Sessions are offered in English and available through video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Lina guides people through a collaborative process that focuses on immediate relief and longer-term growth.
What Lina works with
Everything Lina lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Lina's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Dependent personality
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Approaches Lina lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-based work focuses on patterns in close relationships and helps people notice how early bonds shape current reactions. It is useful for people who want to understand why they respond strongly in relationships or feel disconnected from others.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. In short sessions clients learn concrete strategies to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors that feed anxiety, anger, or low mood.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is a method used to process distressing memories and reduce their emotional hold. It can be applied when trauma or past events continue to cause intense reactions.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Lina collaborates with each person to identify methods that match their goals and comfort level. She explains options, tries techniques together, and adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and skill practice. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for ongoing support and brief reflections between longer sessions. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into daily life.
Questions people ask about Lina
What kinds of concerns does Lina address?
She works with stress, anger, anxiety, trauma, relationship and parenting-related worries, plus issues like addiction, grief, sleep and eating struggles.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is caring and intentional, combining listening with practical tools and occasional challenges to help clients change patterns.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She brings 20 years of experience working with a wide range of emotional and life challenges in California.
What credentials and location apply?
She is a licensed marriage and family therapist - LMFT - practicing in California.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can international clients work with her?
She is not accepting international clients at this time; sessions are provided within her stated region.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How does cost and scheduling work?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To begin, select Start Therapy, complete the matching questionnaire, and schedule a time.