About Celina
Celina Hernandez- Ramirez is a licensed clinical social worker in California who helps people manage stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, parenting challenges, and relationship strain. She speaks English and Spanish and draws on six years of practice to guide practical steps forward. Her style is straightforward and focused on the person in front of her.
She starts by listening to each person's story and noticing strengths they already have. Sessions aim to build small, useful changes rather than overwhelming plans.
Background and approach
Celina uses clear questions and goal-setting to help clients make steady progress toward better mood, confidence, and coping skills. Her background includes experience supporting people through grief, trauma and abuse, postpartum depression, and major life transitions. She also works with issues related to adoption and foster care, immigration, aging and hospice care, and caregiver stress.
This range helps her draw on different ways to approach emotional and practical problems. Therapy sessions may include time for reflecting on past patterns, setting short-term goals, and practicing new ways to communicate. She may use solution-focused ideas to set attainable steps and psychodynamic ideas to talk about long-standing patterns when useful.
The Gottman Method and motivational interviewing are tools she brings when relationship work or motivation are central. Celina describes herself as collaborative and respectful. She helps people decide what matters most and supports steady, realistic change.
To begin, a short matching process connects people to scheduling that fits their needs.
How her approaches work in online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's experience and priorities, so the therapist listens carefully and follows what matters most. This approach helps when someone wants a supportive space to sort feelings, build confidence, or make sense of life events.The Gottman Method focuses on improving communication and daily interactions that shape relationships. It is useful when couples or partners want practical ways to reduce conflict and increase connection through clear skills and short exercises.
Motivational Interviewing uses guided conversation to explore ambivalence and strengthen commitment to change. It can help with motivation for parenting adjustments, career shifts, or making health-related changes.
Choosing an approach is a collaborative step. The therapist will ask about goals, past efforts, and preferences, then suggest methods likely to help. Clients and the therapist adjust the plan over time based on what works.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual connection. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text let people share in shorter moments or keep a thread of ongoing thought between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and different routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish