Shahla Raboubi, LMFT

Shahla Raboubi is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California with 29 years of clinical experience. She has worked in both community mental health settings and private practice, bringing long-term experience with a wide range of presenting concerns and treatment needs.

Her academic background includes PhD-level study in clinical psychology, a Master of Psychology in applied psychology, a Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy, and a B.S. in psychology. She holds a California LMFT license, number CA LMFT 46891, and draws on that formal training when shaping treatment.

Raboubi adapts her approach to fit each person, believing that individual differences call for individualized care. Her clinical methods draw from a broad toolkit, including Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), Existential Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, and Trauma-Focused Therapy. She often integrates techniques from several of these approaches to address the needs of the person she is working with.

Her specialties include stress and anxiety, family and parenting challenges, trauma and abuse, depression, addictions, relationship and intimacy-related issues, grief, anger, self-esteem, career concerns, bipolar disorder, coping with life changes, coaching, and ADHD. Additional areas of focus include abandonment, aging and geriatric issues, attachment concerns, blended family dynamics, communication problems, control issues, disaster-related coping, self-love, and social anxiety and phobia.

Raboubi emphasizes that change requires courage and dedication and structures her work around attentive listening and practical support for people navigating behavior and habit change. She frames therapy as a collaborative process tailored to each individual’s history, goals, and cultural context.