About Lynn
Lynn Novatt is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California with 17 years of experience as a therapist and coach. She combines therapy and life coaching to help people find clarity and take practical steps forward.
Background and approach
Lynn aims to listen carefully and offer calm, direct guidance so clients feel seen and supported. Lynn draws on a background that includes a Master’s Degree in Spiritual Psychology from the University of Santa Monica.
She describes her work as compassionate and encouraging, with straightforward feedback when it can help move things along. She has done extensive personal therapeutic work and uses that experience to meet people where they are.
In sessions she focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, rebuild self-esteem, and navigate life changes. Parenting concerns and coaching for life or leadership decisions are part of her practice.
Practical tools and short assignments may come up between meetings to reinforce new habits. Her additional focus areas include communication problems, control issues, forgiveness work, and feelings of guilt or shame.
She also addresses loneliness, life purpose questions, money and financial worries, and building self-love. Sessions are intended to help people notice options and take steps toward the life they want.
Lynn uses techniques from cognitive-behavioral ideas, mindfulness, positive psychology, and Gestalt influences. She often offers worksheets, prompts, audio, and reading suggestions for people who wish to continue the work between sessions.
Her style blends warmth, optimism, and practical direction.
Practical approaches and online therapy options
Many of Lynn's methods focus on changing unhelpful thinking and building usable skills. Cognitive-behavioral ideas help people notice patterns of thought and try small experiments to change them, which can ease anxiety and improve decision-making.She also uses mindfulness and positive psychology techniques to help people notice strengths and develop steady habits for stress management. These approaches are useful for handling day-to-day tension, improving self-esteem, and supporting life changes.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Lynn works with each person to decide which techniques fit their goals and personality. She checks in regularly and adjusts the plan based on what helps most.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging offer ongoing support and brief coaching-style exchanges between longer sessions. These options increase flexibility and help people make steady progress without rearranging their whole schedule.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English