Azita Azizi, LCSW

Azita Azizi is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in California who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, parenting challenges, grief, and posttraumatic concerns. She works with people dealing with life changes, career strain, compassion fatigue, and postpartum depression. Her style is warm and direct, aimed at practical progress. Azita draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, client-centered methods, and solution-focused work to help people notice unhelpful thinking and try different responses. Sessions include clear, doable steps to practice between meetings. She also uses narrative ideas to help people reframe difficult stories about themselves. Her approach starts with listening to what matters most to each person. From there she and the client set small, achievable goals. Conversations are straightforward and focused on what will help day to day. Azita emphasizes strength and resilience. She believes people can change patterns that no longer serve them. Therapy is described as a mix of honest talk and practical skill building. Across nine years of practice she has worked with a range of challenges tied to trauma, abuse, family strain, and life transitions. She aims to provide empathy and clear guidance while helping clients build coping tools and new ways of thinking.

Online approaches that focus on thinking and goals

Azita uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going, then practices small changes to reduce anxiety or depression. Client-Centered Therapy is also part of her work - it emphasizes active listening and shaping sessions around what the client says matters most. Narrative Therapy helps people rewrite the stories they tell about themselves so those stories feel less limiting and more accurate.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. She will talk with clients about their concerns, goals, and preferences and then try methods that fit. If something does not feel helpful, she adjusts the plan together with the client so the work stays practical and relevant.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which makes scheduling easier around busy lives. Video is useful when visual cues help the conversation, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and text messaging supports ongoing coaching and reminders between meetings. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting it into work, parenting, or other responsibilities.