- Years in practice
- 6
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Parenting issues
- Focus
- Self esteem
About Celina
Celina Hernandez- Ramirez is a California licensed clinical social worker with six years of experience. She focuses on practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, parenting pressures, and life changes. Celina speaks English and Spanish and aims to make sessions straightforward and useful for busy parents.
She believes each person knows their story best and brings strengths that help them move forward. In sessions she listens first and helps clients notice unhelpful patterns.
Background and approach
Then she works with them to set small, manageable goals that build confidence and momentum. Her approach blends talking and action. She uses client-centered listening to understand priorities and motivational interviewing to spark change.
Solution-focused techniques help turn a few focused steps into visible progress, while psychodynamic ideas can uncover long-standing patterns when that feels useful. Celina has supported people through grief, compassion fatigue, trauma and abuse, postpartum depression, and immigration stress. She also helps with adoption and foster care concerns, caregiver strain, and end-of-life planning conversations.
Her work often centers on improving communication and navigating family of origin issues. Sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit different schedules. Costs vary by location and use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
To begin, users complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a time that fits their calendar.
What Celina works with
Everything Celina lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Celina helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Postpartum depression
- Young adult issues
Approaches Celina lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Gottman Method
- 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.
Approach-driven online care that fits family life
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening without judgment and following the client's lead to identify what matters most. This approach is useful when someone needs a safe space to sort priorities, emotions, and parenting concerns. Motivational interviewing helps people move from thinking about change to actually trying new behaviors by exploring ambivalence and highlighting personal reasons for change. It often helps with starting routines, parenting shifts, or managing anxiety. The Gottman Method centers on improving communication and practical skills for handling relationship strain and family interactions, with clear tools to reduce conflict and increase understanding.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with clients about their goals and preferences and then choose methods together. That collaborative process can include trying one method for a few sessions and adjusting based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions or live chat can be easier on low-bandwidth days or during a short work break. Text-based messaging supports quick check-ins and ongoing support between sessions. These options make it simpler to keep momentum while balancing parenting and life demands.
Questions people ask about Celina
What concerns does this therapist commonly address?
She works with stress, anxiety, parenting pressures, self-esteem issues, depression, relationship and family problems, trauma and abuse, grief, career shifts, and ADHD-related challenges.
How would sessions feel in terms of style?
Sessions emphasize listening first and practical next steps. The style mixes empathetic conversation with goal-setting and small behavioral changes.
What is her professional background?
She has six years of professional experience as a clinician and brings practice working with grief, compassion fatigue, postpartum concerns, and immigration-related stress.
Where is this therapist licensed and based?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, practicing in California.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish.
What session formats are available?
Therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How does the pricing work?
Costs vary depending on location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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