About Lucinda
Lucinda Guarino is a California-licensed clinician with 20 years of experience in counseling. She focuses on relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, grief, self-esteem, and navigating major life changes. Lucinda aims to create a respectful and compassionate space where people can begin to make changes at their own pace.
Her work is practical and person-centered. She listens first, then helps people set clear, manageable goals. Sessions include direct conversation and tools to practice between meetings.
Background and approach
Plans are tailored to each person's situation and strengths. Lucinda draws on approaches such as client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also uses EMDR for trauma-related distress and motivational interviewing to boost readiness for change.
These methods are selected to fit the concern rather than applied as a one-size-fits-all solution. People who come to her often need help with caregiver stress, codependency, communication problems, or family-of-origin wounds. She also supports those coping with hospice and end-of-life issues, guilt and shame, jealousy, and obsessive patterns.
Her aim is to help clients find clearer thinking and steadier coping. Lucinda keeps the process collaborative. She explains options, sets shared goals, and adjusts the plan as progress unfolds.
The focus is on building skills that carry into daily life and help clients move toward more satisfying relationships and a more purposeful sense of self.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s experience and the relationship in the room. The therapist listens without judgment and helps the client find their own solutions, which can be helpful for issues like self-esteem and life purpose.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. Sessions teach simple skills to notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors, which often helps with anxiety, depression, and coping with change.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, known as EMDR, is used to reduce the intensity of trauma-related memories. It involves guided processing and can be adapted to work in online video sessions for people dealing with post-traumatic stress or past abuse.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will review options, listen to your goals, and suggest methods that fit your needs and comfort level. This is a collaborative process and plans are adjusted as progress is made.
Online formats give practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can work well for brief check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day and to follow up between sessions. These options make it simpler to schedule consistent sessions and maintain momentum toward your goals.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also listed
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English