Lilian Zelaya-Coria, LCSW

Licensed in California · 9 years in practice

Lilian Zelaya-Coria is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who brings nearly a decade of professional experience to her practice in California.

License and registration

LCSW, California: 88659 · expires April 2027
NPI: 1447543897 · national provider identifier
Years in practice: 9
Languages: English, Spanish

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About Lilian

Lilian Zelaya-Coria is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who brings nearly a decade of professional experience to her practice in California. She speaks English and Spanish and aims to make the first steps toward help feel more manageable for worried parents and guardians. Lilian focuses on building practical skills so people can cope with overwhelming feelings and daily stressors.

She uses a trauma-informed, strengths-based approach that centers the client's own goals.

Background and approach

Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person's comfort. Lilian often combines talk therapy with creative tools like journaling, guided imagery, and expressive arts to help people name emotions and practice new ways of responding. Her background includes school-based mental health, child protective services, and nonprofit work.

That experience shaped her work with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, anger, self-esteem struggles, and coping with life changes. She also focuses on codependency, communication problems, family problems, guilt and shame, immigration issues, isolation and multicultural concerns. Lilian draws on evidence-based methods such as trauma-focused and cognitive behavioral strategies while also using mindfulness and somatic exercises to support emotion regulation.

Sessions may include breathing, grounding, and progressive muscle relaxation to help the body and mind settle. The emphasis is on small, practical steps that build resilience over time. Her style is warm, nonjudgmental, and collaborative.

Parents can expect a calm, steady presence and concrete tools to try between sessions. Progress is guided by each family's needs and pace.

Focus areas and approaches

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Online support

Practical approaches for online care and healing

Many of Lilian's methods adapt well to remote sessions. Trauma-focused cognitive behavioral techniques help people name upsetting memories and learn specific skills to manage distressing thoughts and reactions. These tools are useful for anxiety, traumatic stress, and overwhelming emotions. Cognitive behavioral strategies focus on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and practicing new behaviors to reduce worry and improve mood.

She also uses mindfulness and somatic exercises to support emotion regulation. Short guided breathing, grounding, and progressive muscle relaxation practices can be taught over video or phone and practiced between sessions to reduce tension and improve focus. These practices help link physical sensations with emotional states and provide simple steps to calm down.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. Together they will try techniques, note what helps, and adjust the plan over time so therapy stays useful.

Online formats offer practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text messaging works for ongoing reflection and brief coaching. These options make it simpler to fit sessions into busy schedules and to continue work between appointments.

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Questions people ask

What concerns does Lilian address?

She works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, anger, self-esteem, and coping with life changes. Additional focus areas include codependency, communication and family problems, guilt and shame, immigration issues, isolation, multicultural concerns, and self-love.

What is her therapeutic style?

She practices a trauma-informed, strengths-based approach that is warm and collaborative. Sessions mix talk therapy with creative tools like journaling, guided imagery, and somatic exercises to build coping skills.

How much experience does she have?

She has nine years of clinical experience working in school settings, nonprofit agencies, and child welfare. That work informs her approach to supporting children, adolescents, and families in distress.

What are her credentials and location?

She holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential (LCSW) in California and provides services to people in that state.

Which languages are offered?

Sessions are offered in English and Spanish. International clients are not currently accepted.

What session formats are available?

Therapy is delivered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options allow flexibility for different schedules and needs.

How does pricing work?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability and is billed through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

How do I begin therapy?

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