About Iamina
Iamina Stoian is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, and self-esteem struggles. She also supports clients dealing with relationship strain, family concerns, anger, career stress, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Sessions are offered in English and Romanian.
Iamina uses straightforward, practical methods aimed at helping people make small, steady changes. She listens closely and tailors her approach to each person.
Background and approach
Many sessions focus on learning new ways to cope and reorganize thinking patterns to reduce distress. Her background includes a decade of clinical work with diverse concerns. That experience informs her use of cognitive behavioral techniques alongside mindful awareness and narrative approaches.
She blends approaches to match what a client needs rather than relying on a single method. In sessions clients can expect focused problem solving, skill-building, and attention to daily routines that support wellbeing. Conversations often include clear steps to try between meetings and reflection on what worked.
Motivational interviewing elements help when someone feels stuck or uncertain about change. Iamina prefers a collaborative relationship where goals are set together. She works with people facing complicated histories such as trauma, attachment or abandonment issues, and those navigating life changes like separation or blended family stress.
Her style is direct, empathic, and practical, with an emphasis on usable tools that fit into everyday life.
Approaches and how they work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the client's own goals and perspective. The therapist listens, reflects, and helps the person clarify what matters most. This approach helps with self-esteem, attachment concerns, and making decisions that feel true to the person.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. Sessions often include practical exercises and homework to reduce anxiety, phobias, or unhelpful patterns of thinking. CBT is useful for stress, panic, and managing mood swings.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches attention skills to notice thoughts and bodily sensations without getting swept away by them. Short mindfulness practices can help with anxiety, trauma responses, and emotional regulation.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with clients to choose methods that match goals, preferences, and day-to-day needs. Plans are adjusted as progress is made so the work stays relevant and manageable.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be lighter on bandwidth and work well for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging let people send notes between sessions or check in when a quick intervention helps. These options provide flexibility so therapy can continue around school, work, or caregiving responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English, Romanian
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