Cecilia Samartin, LMFT

Cecilia Samartin is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with two decades of clinical experience supporting people from diverse backgrounds through a wide range of life challenges. She blends client-centered and narrative approaches with evidence-informed techniques such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), psychodynamic work, and solution-focused strategies to tailor treatment to each person's needs.

Believing that pain and setbacks can be catalysts for growth, she helps individuals and families explore meaning within their struggles so they can move forward with greater clarity and confidence in their relationships, work, and personal goals. Her practice addresses relationship concerns, grief, parenting challenges, self-esteem, and coping with life changes, and she also works with issues such as abandonment, attachment difficulties, blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, codependency, body image, commitment and communication problems, personality-related patterns, divorce and separation, domestic violence, and family of origin matters.

Cecilia approaches therapy as a collaborative, creative process and values the opportunity to walk alongside people as they build new patterns and notice progress. She provides services in English and practices in California.