Cecilia Samartin, LMFT

Cecilia Samartin is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with twenty years of clinical experience helping people from a variety of backgrounds navigate complex life challenges. As an LMFT - a clinical license that emphasizes work with individuals, couples, and families - she brings a relational focus to her practice and attention to the ways personal history and current connections shape daily life.

She views difficult emotions and painful experiences as catalysts for growth when they are attended to with curiosity and care. Rather than avoiding mistakes, she encourages clients to examine them as opportunities for learning and change. Using a client-centered narrative approach, she supports people in making sense of their struggles and in finding meaning that allows them to move forward with greater confidence in their relationships, their work, and their goals.

Working with Cecilia is framed as a collaborative process in which she walks alongside clients during moments of transition and healing. She values the creativity that emerges as people reshape their stories and take practical steps toward the life they want, and she considers it a professional honor to witness that progress.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Support

Cecilia Samartin commonly integrates client-centered therapy and narrative therapy, with cognitive behavioral tools as needed. Client-centered therapy emphasizes an empathic, nonjudgmental therapeutic relationship where the client’s own goals guide the work - this approach is useful for building self-esteem, improving communication, and navigating relationship concerns. Narrative therapy focuses on how people make meaning out of their experiences; by exploring personal stories, clients can separate themselves from problem-saturated identities and create new possibilities for action and connection. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) offers practical techniques to identify unhelpful thought patterns and test new behaviors, which can be useful for coping with anxiety, low mood, and everyday stressors.

Finding the right combination of approaches is part of the therapeutic process. Cecilia works collaboratively with each person to identify which methods best fit their needs, goals, and preferences, and she adjusts the plan as progress unfolds. Clients and the therapist determine together what feels most helpful.

Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions occur - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging make it possible to access support from different locations and on varied schedules. These options can make it easier to maintain continuity of care during life transitions and to fit therapy into a busy routine while working with licensed professionals and therapists trained to provide effective, goal-oriented support.