Dr. Priscilla Sobremonte, LCSW

Dr. Priscilla Sobremonte is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 24 years of experience. She blends a client-centered approach with practical methods to help people facing midlife questions and life transitions. She works in California and offers services in English, and she accepts clients internationally.

Her background includes 11 years of service in the United States Air Force and many years in public mental health and correctional settings. She has worked with children, adolescents, and adults in roles ranging from crisis intake to psychiatric clinical social work. Those roles included positions at county mental health departments, juvenile justice collaborations, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Kaiser Permanente, and Veterans Health Care.

In private practice since 2006, she starts by listening and shaping a plan with each person. She commonly draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy, and incorporates Narrative and Mindfulness ideas when helpful. Motivational Interviewing is used for people working on change goals like managing addictions or career shifts.

She has experience helping with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, relationship and family concerns, parenting strain, and challenges like ADHD or bipolar disorder. She also supports people coping with chronic illness, caregiver stress, abandonment issues, and aging-related worries.

Dr. Sobremonte also offers therapeutic journaling tools she developed called Therapeutic Journaling: Making Sense of My Life, which uses narrative journaling techniques. Please note she is not able to write employer letters for time off or disability verification.

How her approaches translate to online work

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and working from the client's goals. The therapist creates a space where the person's priorities guide each session and the plan is adjusted over time. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thought and behavior patterns and uses practical exercises to change unhelpful habits. CBT can help with anxiety, depression, and coping with life transitions. Existential Therapy helps people examine meaning, values, and choices during major life shifts; it can be useful for midlife questions and career or identity concerns.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. She will talk with a client about goals and try methods that fit those goals and personal preferences. If something doesn't feel useful, the plan can change and different techniques can be tried together.

The therapist's biography does not list specific session formats, so please confirm current online or in-person options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, allow shorter check-ins when days are tight, and reduce travel time. It also gives people the option to meet from different locations when they must be away from home for work or travel. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises like mindfulness practice, CBT worksheets, and narrative journaling to remote sessions so progress continues between meetings.