Dr. Deborah Wieland, LMFT

Dr. Deborah Wieland is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California with a decade of professional experience supporting individuals and families through challenging times. She focuses on a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, anger management, depression, relationship and family difficulties, grief, intimacy-related issues, addictions, and coping with life transitions. Her work also extends to areas such as abandonment and attachment issues, blended family dynamics, codependency, communication and control challenges, first responder stress, and compassion fatigue.

Dr. Wieland draws from several clinical approaches to tailor care to each person - including attachment-based work, client-centered and psychodynamic perspectives, cognitive behavioral strategies, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, solution-focused techniques, trauma-focused interventions, and Internal Family Systems. She frames therapy around the understanding that people are the experts of their own stories and that existing strengths can be rebuilt and applied to move through what feels overwhelming.

In sessions she emphasizes collaborative, strengths-based care that attends to both immediate coping and longer-term patterns. Her clinical experience includes helping clients manage mood concerns such as bipolar disorder and depression, navigate relationship and family complexities, address substance-related issues, and pursue goals related to career and self-esteem. Dr. Wieland brings compassionate professionalism to her work and centers respect for each person’s experience while offering evidence-informed tools and perspectives.