About Fred
Fred Lombardo is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 35 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, and self-esteem struggles. He works with individuals facing career and motivation questions, sleep problems, compassion fatigue, ADHD challenges, and life transitions. Fred aims to make the first step feel less daunting and to support practical moves toward a more satisfying life.
Fred listens first and follows the person’s lead. He treats clients as the experts on their own stories and looks for strengths to build on.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear, usable steps rather than jargon. He often mixes practical strategies with space to reflect on patterns that keep problems recurring. He uses client-centered methods to create a collaborative tone.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy offers tools to change thoughts and actions that feed anxiety and panic. Mindfulness techniques help people quiet racing thoughts and improve sleep and focus. Fred also draws on motivational interviewing to boost commitment to change and on psychodynamic ideas to explore long-standing patterns that affect relationships and control issues.
Together these approaches support work on communication problems, jealousy, social anxiety, and coping after big life changes. Fred practices in California and conducts sessions in English. He aims to help people set realistic goals, track progress, and develop skills that can be used outside sessions.
The emphasis is on practical improvement and steady personal growth.
Therapy approaches and online care that fit your life
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding each person’s experience and building sessions around their goals and strengths. It creates a collaborative space where the client’s priorities guide the work and decisions about next steps.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts and actions influence moods and behavior. CBT offers concrete tools for managing anxiety, panic attacks, social anxiety, and sleep difficulties by changing unhelpful thinking and practicing new habits.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention practices that reduce rumination and help with focus, stress, and emotional regulation. These practices can be brief and easy to use between sessions to lower reactivity and improve sleep.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. Fred will talk with each person about their goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust the plan as needed. This collaborative process helps identify which techniques feel most useful and realistic for daily life.
Online therapy provides several practical options: video calls for full face-to-face sessions, phone sessions when video isn’t needed, live chat for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging for on-the-go support. These formats make it easier to schedule around work, reduce travel time, allow shorter or more frequent touchpoints, and offer alternatives when bandwidth or camera use is limited.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- ADHD
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English