Lucinda Guarino, LPCC

Lucinda Guarino is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) based in California with 20 years of professional experience. She has focused her work on relationship challenges, trauma and abuse, grief and loss, self-esteem and motivation, and helping people navigate major life changes. Lucinda approaches each person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion, creating a supportive environment where difficult emotions and experiences can be explored.

She individualizes conversation and treatment plans to reflect each person’s unique history, strengths, and goals, drawing on a range of clinical tools to meet specific needs. Lucinda emphasizes practical, achievable steps alongside deeper emotional work so clients can build confidence, restore a sense of purpose, and improve important relationships. Seeking change takes courage, and she aims to support and empower those taking the first steps toward a more fulfilling life.

Throughout her two decades of practice, Lucinda has worked with people facing caregiver stress, codependency, communication and control issues, domestic violence and family-of-origin concerns, guilt and shame, end-of-life and hospice needs, jealousy, midlife transitions, obsessive-compulsive patterns, and post-traumatic stress. Her practice centers on meeting each person where they are and partnering on a path forward.