Gabriela Lozano, LMFT

Gabriela Lozano is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California with more than 15 years of clinical experience. She has worked with individuals, couples, families and adolescents, helping clients navigate depression, anxiety, relationship concerns, parenting challenges, anger management, emotional regulation, coping skills, and eating disorders. She also has extensive experience supporting people who have lived through emotional trauma or emotional abuse, which she often sees as a root of many recurring struggles.

Her therapeutic style is warm, interactive, and attuned to each person she meets. Gabriela believes people hold important knowledge about their own healing and growth, and she focuses on guiding clients so they feel heard, respected, and valued while they explore change. She adapts interventions to match emotional and intellectual needs, drawing on client-centered, humanistic, psychodynamic, and cognitive-behavioral approaches to help clients discover practical answers to their challenges.

Gabriela works with a wide range of concerns, including LGBT issues, family dynamics, trauma and abuse, grief, eating and body image concerns, abandonment, codependency, communication and control issues, caregiver stress, substance-related problems, domestic violence, and end-of-life and hospice-related support. Taking the first step toward therapy requires courage, and Gabriela offers steady support while walking alongside clients as they pursue understanding and growth.

Therapeutic Approaches for Online Care

Gabriela Lozano uses client-centered therapy to create a supportive, nonjudgmental space where the client’s goals and experiences guide the work. This approach emphasizes active listening and collaboration, and it often helps with relationship concerns, self-exploration, and building confidence in decision making.

She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful thought patterns and develop practical skills for managing anxiety, depression, eating-related behaviors, and emotional regulation. CBT focuses on changing thinking and behavior in concert to reduce distress and increase effective coping.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is another tool Gabriela may introduce when emotional intensity, impulsive behaviors, or difficulties with emotion regulation are present. DBT combines skills training in mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness to support stability and healthier responses to stress.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Gabriela will work with each client to tailor methods based on their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting strategies over time as progress unfolds. Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions can take place via video calls, by phone, through live chat, or using text-based messaging - making it easier to fit consistent therapeutic work into a busy life and to access licensed professionals from different locations.