About Lucila
Lucila Coba uses an integrative approach that centers the client and practical tools. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Florida and speaks English and Spanish. Lucila focuses on easing stress, lowering anxiety, and improving relationship and parenting challenges.
She draws from several methods to match what each person needs. That can mean skill practice to manage anxious thoughts, exercises to build self-esteem, or guided conversations to work through grief and life transitions.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to be straightforward and useful for everyday life. Lucila has about 12 years of experience working with concerns like compassion fatigue, intimacy-related issues, and coping with change. She also supports people dealing with family-of-origin problems, divorce and separation, and caregiver stress.
Her background includes helping people face commitment, abandonment, and attachment questions. Her style is collaborative and warm. She invites clients to identify goals and then tries approaches that fit those goals.
Progress is paced to what feels doable for each person. Lucila welcomes people who want practical strategies alongside reflective work. She helps clients build tools for communication, manage overwhelming feelings, and regain a sense of direction after loss or big life changes.
Therapeutic approaches for online support
The therapist commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choosing actions that match what matters most. It can help with anxiety, grief, and major life decisions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thinking patterns and replace them with practical strategies and behaviors that reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with each person to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That collaboration means trying approaches, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan over time.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone sessions are convenient when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text messaging can suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue work between appointments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish