Laura Lien-Mitobe, LMFT
California · 30 years in practice
Laura Lien-Mitobe is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, parenting strain, relationship problems, and life transitions.
License and registration
- LMFT, California
- 17434 · expires July 2026
- NPI
- 1669087573 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 30
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Laura
Laura Lien-Mitobe is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, parenting strain, relationship problems, and life transitions. She works with concerns like addiction, trauma, self-esteem, career pressures, and compassion fatigue. Her approachable style aims to make the first steps easier for someone who feels overwhelmed.
She favors a person-centered way of working that prioritizes the client's perspective. Sessions focus on what matters most to the individual and on practical next steps.
Background and approach
She also draws on existential ideas to help people find meaning when they face loss or major change. Over a 30-year career in California Laura combines cognitive behavioral tools with acceptance and commitment techniques. That means she helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, try small experiments, and choose actions that match their values.
Attachment-based ideas inform work on closeness, boundaries, and communication in relationships. Laura makes room for both emotion and practical problem solving. Conversations often include skill practice, reflection on life decisions, and planning for realistic changes.
She aims to tailor each session to what the person needs that week. She has worked with people from diverse backgrounds and brings experience supporting those dealing with bereavement, parenting challenges, blended-family issues, and caregiving stress. Laura also addresses concerns such as body image, eating issues, ADHD, and intimacy-related difficulties.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Laura lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Coping with life changes
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- 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
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Laura names
- Existential Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Existential Therapy helps people face big life questions and find meaning during change or loss; it focuses on values, freedom of choice, and accepting uncertainty to make clearer decisions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, teaches people to notice difficult thoughts and feelings without struggling with them and to commit to actions that match their values; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns of closeness and communication in relationships and helps people develop healthier ways of connecting and setting boundaries.Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will listen to your goals and preferences, explain different ways of working, and try methods that fit your needs. Together you will adjust the focus as progress and priorities change, so therapy stays practical and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls let people use visual cues for relationship work, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options let people fit therapy around work, caregiving, or travel and make it easier to keep momentum between sessions.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of problems does Laura help with?
This therapist works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, parenting and relationship problems, addictions, trauma and abuse, eating and body image concerns, ADHD, career strain, and compassion fatigue among other issues.
What is her therapy style like?
Her approach is person-centered and practical, combining reflection with doable steps. Sessions balance emotional support with skill-building and planning.
How much experience does she have?
She has 30 years of clinical experience working in California and with people from a range of backgrounds.
What credentials and region are listed?
She is a licensed marriage and family therapist, LMFT, practicing in California.
Which languages are used for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English only.
What session formats are available online?
Sessions can take place by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How are fees and billing handled?
Costs vary by location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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