Yanina Lambert

Yanina Lambert is a California-licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 20 years of experience. She meets people where they are and offers calm, practical support for stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, grief, and addiction concerns. She speaks English and Spanish and aims to make therapy easy to reach and understand.

Yanina uses straightforward, evidence-informed approaches to help people notice patterns and try small changes. She helps clients learn skills for managing strong emotions, improving communication, and handling daily stress. Sessions focus on simple, usable tools rather than jargon-heavy explanations.

Her background includes long experience helping people navigate relationship transitions, parenting challenges, and trauma-related distress. She has worked with a variety of cultural backgrounds and attends to how culture and family shape choices and behavior. This practical focus helps people move from stuck patterns toward clearer decisions.

Therapy with Yanina centers on building awareness, strengthening coping skills, and improving connection in close relationships. She combines acceptance-based and behaviorally-focused methods to support changes in thinking and action. The work is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs.

For someone feeling overwhelmed by mood shifts, parenting strain, intimacy issues, or problems with substance use, Yanina offers steady guidance and concrete steps. To begin, the usual process is to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.

How these approaches translate to online therapy

Mindfulness Therapy helps people slow down and notice thoughts and bodily sensations without judgment, which can reduce reactivity to stress and improve sleep and mood. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small, committed actions toward them while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people develop more secure ways of relating and communicating.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Yanina will collaborate with each person to try methods that fit their goals and preferences. Together they check what helps, adjust the plan, and build on what’s working rather than sticking to a single method.

The therapist's biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. Many people find that learning mindfulness skills, practicing ACT exercises, and working on attachment patterns adapt well to remote sessions when the therapist and client agree on how to structure meetings.