- Years in practice
- 20
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
- Focus
- Parenting issues
About Lina
Lina Vielma is a licensed marriage and family therapist who aims to help people feeling overwhelmed by stress, parenting strains, anxiety, or past trauma. She keeps sessions direct and compassionate so concerns are easier to talk about. Her style is supportive and practical for people juggling life and caregiving responsibilities.
With two decades of clinical experience, Lina draws on approaches that focus on relationships and present-day coping. She uses attachment-informed ideas to look at how early relationships shape reactions today.
Background and approach
She also uses client-centered methods to center the person’s own goals and pace. Lina blends cognitive behavioral techniques to spot and change unhelpful thinking patterns. She adds elements from dialectical behavior therapy when people need concrete skills for emotion regulation and tolerating distress.
For trauma, she may include EMDR-informed steps as part of a broader plan. People often come to her with parenting stress, anxiety, grief, addiction concerns, or relationship challenges. She also supports issues such as self-esteem, anger, sleep and eating problems, and coping with life changes.
Her work includes attention to career stress, compassion fatigue, and neurodiversity-related concerns. Sessions are offered in English and provided through a mix of remote formats. Lina works from California and holds a CA LMFT credential.
She aims to meet people where they are and help them develop usable tools for everyday life.
What Lina works with
Everything Lina lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Lina helps people with.
- 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 Lina’s Approaches Work Online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect how people respond now. Online sessions use conversation and gentle exercises to notice those patterns and try different ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and practicing concrete changes. Online CBT often uses short homework, thought logs, and skill practice between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively to match methods to a person’s goals, needs, and comfort level. That means trying an approach, checking how it feels, and adjusting the plan together rather than sticking to one set method.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for deeper conversations and eye-contact cues, while phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, step-by-step coaching, or fitting therapy into a busy day. These options add flexibility so people can get help without rearranging their whole schedule.
Questions people ask about Lina
What kinds of concerns does she help with?
Lina works with people dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, parenting strain, anger, low self-esteem, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, sleeping and eating problems, and life transitions.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is caring and intentional, combining client-centered listening with practical skill-building. Sessions aim to be supportive while offering concrete tools for managing emotions and behaviors.
How much experience does she have?
She brings 20 years of clinical experience working with a range of concerns including trauma, parenting stress, addictions, and compassion fatigue.
Where is she licensed and located?
She practices in California and holds a CA LMFT credential, which stands for Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How does cost and billing work?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin?
Click Start Therapy, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions based on therapist availability.
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