About Naira
Naira Karapetyan is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in California who helps people managing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and ADHD-related struggles. She offers straightforward support for relationship concerns, sleep problems, parenting strain, and feelings of shame or low self-esteem. Her style aims to make the first step feel manageable and clear.
She uses practical strategies from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thoughts and build small behavior changes.
Background and approach
Sessions also look at past patterns and how early relationships shape current reactions, drawing on psychodynamic ideas. Naira brings solution-focused tools to set short-term goals and track progress week to week. Clients can expect a calm, nonjudgmental space to talk through whatever feels most urgent.
She listens for patterns that cause repeated stress and helps people try different ways of responding. Work may include skill building, problem solving, and shifts in daily routines. Her approach is collaborative and paced to each person's needs.
She aims to help people find clearer thinking, steadier moods, and more satisfying connections. Practical coping skills are paired with conversations about meaning and life direction when that arises. With about 12 years of experience as an LMFT, Naira has supported people through career change, caregiver burnout, trauma, and mood disorders.
She offers sessions in English and sees clients across California via online formats and phone contacts.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Psychodynamic work helps people see how past relationships and early experiences shape current feelings and reactions. It is useful for uncovering patterns that keep showing up in relationships and mood swings.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. It is practical for anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and impulsivity linked to ADHD-like symptoms.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with clients to choose which methods to try first, and adjusts based on goals, progress, and preferences. Clients are invited to experiment with different strategies and give feedback about what helps.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let people meet face to face from home or work when schedules allow. Phone sessions can be used when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support quick reflections, notes between sessions, or ongoing coaching-style touchpoints. These options offer flexibility for people balancing work, caregiving, and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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