Lynnetta Hawkins

Lynnetta Hawkins is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 12 years of clinical experience. She uses an approachable, practical manner to help people facing stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, relationship struggles, and issues around intimacy and sexuality. She focuses on helping individuals build skills and feel more hopeful about day-to-day life.

She prefers clear, conversation-based work that combines empathy with practical tools. Sessions often include talking through problems, learning coping strategies, and trying small behavior changes that add up over time. She also addresses concerns such as addictions, body image, eating struggles, and parenting stress.

Her background includes work in county mental health settings and psychiatric crisis care. That experience shaped her calm, steady approach when people are upset or overwhelmed. She has provided private practice therapy in person and online for the past 3.5 years and manages a psychiatric stabilization unit.

She draws on several clinical approaches to shape treatment plans, including client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior ideas, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. These tools are used to reduce distress, improve communication, and support recovery from major mood disorders and co-occurring concerns.

Lynnetta also works with people who identify as LGBT and with those navigating kink or alternative sexual cultures. She helps people deal with attachment and abandonment issues, autism and Asperger Syndrome-related challenges, and the stress of caregiving. Her style aims to make therapy useful and realistic for everyday life.

How therapeutic methods translate to online work

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person's experience, helping them feel heard and guiding the direction of sessions based on their goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) provides emotion regulation and distress tolerance strategies useful for intense moods and relationship challenges.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss what feels most useful and adjust methods as goals change. Clients and the therapist work together to try techniques and see what fits best for each concern.

The therapist has offered both in-person and online private practice for several years, but specific session formats for new clients should be confirmed before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also let people continue care when life changes would otherwise interrupt progress.