About Yanina
Yanina Lambert helps people who are stressed, anxious, depressed, or dealing with relationship and intimacy struggles. She also supports those facing grief, parenting strain, substance use concerns, eating or sleeping difficulties, and issues around self-esteem or career stress.
Background and approach
Yanina is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California with 20 years of experience and she works in English and Spanish. Her approach is practical and straightforward.
Sessions focus on what is happening now and on small steps clients can try between meetings. She draws on therapy methods that teach skills for emotion regulation, clearer thinking, and healthier patterns in relationships.
Yanina encourages self-reflection and action in the same conversation. Clients can expect a calm, respectful presence in sessions and a focus on tools that fit everyday life.
She pays attention to attachment and communication patterns so people can see how old habits affect current problems. Conversations aim to increase choice and reduce repeated cycles that cause pain.
Yanina also works with people facing trauma, domestic violence, and addiction-related struggles. She helps individuals navigate blended family issues, caregiver stress, chronic illness concerns, and complicated grief.
Her background includes long-term practice helping clients from diverse cultural backgrounds. Sessions are offered via multiple online formats to meet different needs.
The emphasis is on finding realistic, sustainable changes that make daily life easier and relationships more satisfying.
How therapeutic approaches fit into online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without being driven by them, and then choose actions that match their values; it can be useful for anxiety, depression, and chronic stress. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current connections and communication, helping people change how they relate to partners and family. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, and other mood concerns.Choosing the best approach is usually a collaborative process. Yanina will talk with each client about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is good for face-to-face work and skills practice, phone works well when bandwidth is low, live chat can suit quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different life circumstances.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- 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)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish