About Laura
Laura Lien-Mitobe is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 30 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, relationship concerns, and phobias. She works in a warm, nonjudgmental way and aims to create a calm space where people can talk through what’s causing them pain. Laura focuses on practical steps that fit each person’s life and goals.
She draws on several approaches to match the work to the person.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and paced to the client’s needs. Laura listens for patterns in relationships, emotions, and behavior, then helps people try small changes to test what works. Her background includes long practice as a therapist and experience teaching others about counseling.
Laura has worked across many life stages and life challenges, so she brings a broad perspective to problems like addiction, parenting strain, career stress, and compassion fatigue. In therapy she mixes skill-building with space to process difficult feelings. That can mean learning ways to manage anxiety, practicing clearer communication, or noticing what matters most and acting from those values.
She also supports people coping with identity issues, body image concerns, and life changes such as divorce or caregiving transitions. Sessions are offered in English and conducted from California. Laura uses different formats to fit schedules and needs, and she helps clients choose approaches that suit their goals and circumstances.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small actions that align with those values even when feelings are hard. It can help with anxiety, avoidance, and making concrete life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationship patterns shape feelings and behaviors; it helps people who struggle with trust, closeness, or repeated relationship problems. Client-Centered Therapy centers the conversation on the person’s experience, using empathy and reflection to help people feel heard and to discover their own solutions.Finding the best approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to identify what fits the client’s needs, goals, and preferences. Plans can change over time - techniques are tested and adjusted together so the work stays practical and relevant.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into daily life. Video is useful for a face-to-face feel, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, and messaging can be a shorter check-in between sessions. These options give flexibility for people juggling work, caregiving, or travel while keeping regular contact with a licensed professional.
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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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