About Laura
Laura Lien-Mitobe is a licensed marriage and family therapist with three decades of practice in California. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship concerns, parenting challenges, compassion fatigue, and ADHD. Her approach is kind and down-to-earth, aiming to make a worried parent feel heard and guided toward workable steps.
She offers a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk through patterns that get in the way of daily life.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical strategies and on understanding feelings and behaviors. Laura blends different methods to match the person in front of her rather than using one fixed style. Over 30 years she has worked with individuals, couples, families, and groups and has also taught.
That background gives her a range of tools for common problems like addiction, eating issues, low self-esteem, career stress, and intimacy-related concerns. She pays attention to attachment and relationship dynamics that affect day-to-day functioning. Her work often includes helping people face life changes, cope with loss, and rebuild after separation or trauma.
She also supports parents navigating blended family issues, adoption and foster care questions, and caregiver strain. Laura frames therapy as a collaborative process where goals and methods are decided together. Clients can expect a mix of talk therapy, skills practice, and exploration of values and goals.
Laura uses approaches such as acceptance and commitment, cognitive behavioral ideas, emotionally-focused work, and client-centered listening to help people make small, meaningful changes.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions that reflect those values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, life transitions, and motivation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing practical behavior changes to reduce distress and improve daily routines. It often helps with anxiety, mood, and some patterns tied to ADHD. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current reactions and connections, and it can be helpful for intimacy, family, and relationship concerns.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to match methods to their goals, strengths, and preferences. That means trying ideas, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together rather than following a rigid script.
Online sessions use video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video lets people maintain face-to-face contact; phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited or during a short break. Live chat and messaging support quick check-ins, ongoing coaching, and work between longer sessions. These options make therapy more flexible for busy schedules, caregiving demands, and people who prefer not to travel.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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