Therapist profile
Lynnetta Hawkins, LMFT
California
LMFT - Relationships and Mood Concerns
Continue with LynnettaWhere Lynnetta stands
- Credentials
- LMFT
- License
- LMFT, California / 93110
- NPI
- 1437436938
- Experience
- 12 years
- Languages
- English
- Location
- California
About
- Codependency patterns
- Anxiety and depression
- Intimacy and kink issues
About Lynnetta
Lynnetta Hawkins is a California LMFT with 12 years of clinical experience. She works with adults dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, addictions, relationship concerns, and codependency among other issues. She also supports people managing intimacy and sexual concerns, parenting stress, body image, and life changes.
Hawkins uses practical, talk-based methods to help people name patterns and try different ways of responding. She draws from client-centered work to keep sessions focused on the person in front of her and from cognitive behavioral techniques to test unhelpful thoughts. Mindfulness and DBT skills are used when people need tools for intense emotions and better regulation.
Her background includes several years assessing and stabilizing people in a county psychiatric setting. That work included evaluating risk and working on a treatment team on an inpatient psychiatric unit, experience she now combines with outpatient practice. For the last 3.5 years she has maintained a private practice offering both in-person and online sessions while also managing an inpatient unit.
In sessions she helps people identify what keeps them stuck - people-pleasing, trouble saying no, fear of abandonment, or patterns around mood and substance use. She also works with sexual concerns including non-traditional relationship structures and kink when clients bring those topics up.
Her approach is practical and collaborative. She will outline tools, practice skills between sessions, and revisit what works. People who want clear strategies for boundaries, emotion regulation, and communication often seek this style of support.
How sessions work
How her approaches translate to online work
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s experience and priorities. Online sessions use that same attuned conversation to clarify goals and surface what matters most. This approach helps when someone is trying to name people-pleasing patterns or figure out what they want from relationships.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and tests small behavioral experiments. Online CBT can involve homework between sessions, tracking thoughts in a journal, and reviewing changes together to reduce anxiety or change unhelpful reactions.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. Those skills are taught and practiced in session and then used in daily life to manage intense moods or impulsive reactions.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk about goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust the plan based on what helps. That means learning together which tools are useful and which need changing.
Confirm the specific session formats offered before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life - shorter check-ins can be scheduled around work, sessions avoid travel time, and some people find it simpler to practice skills in their usual surroundings. Practical scheduling and the format that best fits day-to-day life will be discussed during the first steps of matching and scheduling.
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Experience
12+ years
Listed in
California
Languages
English
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Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, addictions, relationship problems, codependency concerns, intimacy and sexual issues, and related life changes.
What is her therapeutic style like?
She blends client-centered conversation with concrete CBT and DBT skills. Sessions emphasize practical tools, skill practice, and regular review of what helps.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 12 years of experience, including work assessing and stabilizing people in a county psychiatric setting and managing an inpatient unit.
Is she a licensed therapist and where does she practice?
She is an LMFT licensed in California and provides services based in California.
Can I see her if I live outside the United States?
Sessions are offered in English and she does not accept international clients.
What session formats does she offer?
Her biography notes she has provided both in-person and online sessions during her private practice; confirm current session options before booking.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I get started with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Details come from information the therapist supplied to BetterHelp. A license can be checked with the state board.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are not safe at home, use the crisis and helpline numbers.