Naira Karapetyan, LMFT

Naira Karapetyan is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in California who helps people manage anxiety, stress, grief, and depression. She supports people facing relationship and family concerns, parenting strain, career uncertainty, and life changes. She also works with those dealing with trauma, mood disorders, ADHD, and intimacy-related issues.

Her approach is straightforward and collaborative. She listens without judgment and helps clients notice unhelpful thoughts and patterns. Then she works with them to try small, practical changes that can ease daily stress and improve sleep, mood, or relationships.

Naira uses cognitive behavioral therapy to identify thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. She also draws on psychodynamic ideas to look at how past experiences influence current feelings. Solution-focused techniques help set clear goals and make fast, achievable steps toward them.

Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. Clients can expect to talk about current struggles, try new coping skills, and reflect on what works. Homework or simple experiments between sessions are often suggested to reinforce progress.

With 12 years of experience, she brings steady guidance and a calm presence. People who want practical tools along with chances to understand deeper patterns often find this style helpful. Naira aims to support each person in taking manageable steps toward a more balanced life.

How therapeutic approaches guide online sessions

Naira commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and solution-focused methods during online work. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and try practical changes that reduce anxiety, improve sleep, or lift mood. Solution-focused therapy emphasizes clear goals and brief steps, which can make online sessions feel efficient and outcomes easier to track.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. She will talk with each client about goals, preferences, and what seems to help, then adapt methods collaboratively. Clients and she decide together whether to focus on skills practice, goal work, or examining past patterns that affect today.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief conversations, check-ins, or when writing feels easier than talking. These options make it possible to fit therapy into busy schedules and maintain continuity when in-person visits are difficult.