Shahla Raboubi, LMFT

Shahla Raboubi is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California with 29 years of experience. She offers a calm, practical approach and focuses on clear steps clients can take to feel better. Shahla speaks English and Persian and invites people who are ready to make changes to begin a conversation about their goals.

Her work often centers on stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, and relationship and intimacy concerns. She also helps with parenting strain, anger, addictions, self-esteem problems, career shifts, bipolar management, and coping with life changes. Additional areas of attention include attachment and abandonment concerns, blended family dynamics, communication difficulties, and social anxiety.

Shahla blends approaches to match each person’s needs rather than using one fixed method. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) frequently appears in her work to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. She also uses attachment-based and client-centered ideas to focus on emotional safety and the person’s own priorities.

Her background includes long experience in community mental health and private practice settings. Shahla holds multiple graduate degrees in psychology and marriage and family therapy and maintains her California LMFT credential. That mix of settings and training informs a practical style that balances problem-solving with emotional support.

Sessions can include structured skill work, narrative conversations about life patterns, and emotional processing when trauma or loss is present. She aims to help clients build clearer thinking, steadier relationships, and everyday strategies they can use between sessions.

How therapy approaches translate to online care

Shahla commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try practical behavior changes. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and problems like anger or low self-esteem because it breaks issues into thoughts, feelings, and actions to work on step by step.

She also draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how relationship patterns affect emotion and trust. That approach can help with intimacy issues, abandonment concerns, and communication problems by naming recurring patterns and practicing new ways of relating. In addition, her client-centered stance keeps the person’s goals and experience at the center of each session, allowing conversations to follow what matters most to the client.

Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and try methods that fit those goals. Adjustments are made over time based on what helps the client make progress and feel more in control.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and skill practice, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be useful for quicker check-ins, and messaging supports short updates or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make scheduling easier and let people pick the format that fits their day-to-day life.