LPCC, 5 years of experience
Hi! I am a licensed professional clinical counselor here in California. I have been in the field for 5 years now and have grown a soft spot for working with trauma survivors and neurodivergent individuals. I take great pride in helping people from all walks of life take steps forward in their journey to healing and acceptance. I work on increasing the use of healthy coping skills in order to process and work through hard emotions and memories to better ones overall wellbeing.
Our first session will be about getting to know and feel safe with one another. It can be nerve wrecking to open up to someone new, my goal is to connect on a person to person level while gaining background and insight on your goals and needs.
I have a strong focus on teaching, modeling, and implementing coping and communication skills and naturally integrating it into our sessions as we process and work through your needs so it becomes second nature to utilize in the real world. My compassion and dedication to each individuals needs help me tailor treatment to best suit and address your needs.
I have extensive history of working with adolescents, trauma, and neurodivergent concerns and love every second of it. I have skilled my craft to be warm, nurturing, accepting, and at the same time, honest and real. I enjoying working with all individuals on how to set boundaries with others as well as themselves. Building a solid foundation of sense of self is key to healing and acceptance no matter what walk you are on.
With CBT therapy, we learn how to reframe, challenge, and recognize how our thoughts, behaviors, and emotions interact. We will process and identify where healthy changes and shifts can be made to then change our overall well being.
Trauma affects everyone differently and on their own timeline. With trauma informed care, there is no judgement, rules, or rush to work through past or current stressors, triggers, or memories that you wish to work through. The process is uniquely yours and you set the guidelines.
EMDR is an amazing tool to utilize moving through trauma events and triggering memories. While the process can be quite intense, it is an amazing process to take your disturbance levels from a 10 down to a 0 so the events and memories no longer bring you down.
DBT is a great tool to learn to cope with, manange, and move forward in a new mindset with negative emotions and behaviors. Integrated with talk therapy, we can identify and apply when and where skills will be useful to help us in our day to day life.
2 ratings with written reviews
August 15, 2025
She has been no more than AMAZING in my journey to get back to me AGAIN. She seems to always understand so that I feel understood. I would recommend her to ANYONE :)
April 25, 2025
Lina is very understanding, and caring. She makes sure to hold people accountable for their actions, and words. She makes sure to follow up on topics from previous sessions, to make sure everyone is on the same page. She allows people to see what their issues are by themselves, while still guiding them to find it. She helps people to understand that not everything is in their control and there are many healthy ways of dealing with it. She cares very deeply about her clients. Wonderful therapist