- Years in practice
- 17
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Parenting issues
- Focus
- Self esteem
About Lynn
Lynn Novatt is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California. She combines 17 years of clinical work with a coaching mindset to help people sort through stress, anxiety, parenting pressures, and life transitions. Lynn writes and listens with calm and clarity to help clients feel seen and supported.
She brings a practical, down-to-earth style to sessions. Conversations focus on real problems and small steps that can fit into busy lives.
Background and approach
Lynn uses listening, honest feedback, and encouragement to help people notice new options and try different choices. Lynn trained in spiritual psychology and has completed deep personal therapeutic work of her own. That background informs a gentle, optimistic stance in sessions and an interest in meaning and life purpose.
She offers tools like question prompts, worksheets, and short assignments when clients want to continue progress between meetings. Her work addresses self-esteem, coping with change, control issues, communication problems, forgiveness, guilt and shame, loneliness, money concerns, and learning self-love. She frames struggles as opportunities for practical change rather than permanent labels.
Coaching elements are used alongside therapy to support goal-setting and action. Sessions can include simple guided mindfulness and exercises drawn from cognitive-behavioral ideas and positive psychology. Lynn aims to make the process manageable and useful, helping people gain clarity, take next steps, and build steadier day-to-day habits.
What Lynn works with
Everything Lynn lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Lynn helps people with.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
CBT, or cognitive-behavioral techniques, focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-world actions. This helps reduce anxiety and builds better coping habits through short exercises and practical homework.Mindfulness practices teach simple attention and breathing exercises to reduce reactivity and increase calm. These tools can help with stress, overwhelm, and improving emotional awareness in day-to-day moments.
Positive psychology and learned optimism emphasize noticing strengths and small wins. The approach uses prompts and short exercises to shift perspective and encourage action toward values and goals.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to match techniques to their goals, preferences, and life demands. Methods can be adjusted over time as needs change.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video lets people use visual cues and interactive exercises. Phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is limited or a brief check-in fits a break at work. Live chat or text messaging supports ongoing reflection and quick, short responses between scheduled meetings. These options make it easier to fit steady therapeutic work into a busy life.
Questions people ask about Lynn
What kinds of concerns does Lynn address?
Lynn works with stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, self-esteem, and coping with life changes. She also addresses communication problems, control issues, forgiveness, guilt and shame, loneliness, life purpose, money issues, and self-love.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Her style is calm, encouraging, and direct. She blends listening with honest feedback and practical tools to help people try small changes between sessions.
What is her professional background?
She has 17 years of experience as a therapist and coach and holds a Master's Degree in Spiritual Psychology. She also emphasizes her own personal therapeutic work as part of her approach.
What are her credentials and location?
She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, licensed in California and practices there.
Which languages are available for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are offered?
Sessions are available via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I start a therapy relationship?
Begin by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then scheduling sessions according to therapist availability.
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