About Lucila
Lucila Coba is a Florida-licensed mental health counselor who blends body-focused work with talk therapy. She uses somatic awareness alongside practical strategies to help people feel steadier when stress and anxiety arise. Lucila speaks English and Spanish and draws on 12 years of clinical experience to tailor support to each person's situation.
She helps people facing relationship strain, parenting stress, low self-esteem, grief, and major life changes. Many clients also bring concerns like abandonment, commitment worries, body image struggles, caregiver stress, or challenges tied to family of origin.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to strengthen coping skills and restore a sense of control. Lucila describes her approach as collaborative and flexible. She listens first, then offers tools from cognitive behavioral methods, acceptance and commitment practices, mindfulness, and client-centered care.
She also brings somatic techniques that invite awareness of how emotions show up in the body. People can expect clear, down-to-earth guidance and short-term strategies for managing overwhelm. Lucila uses questions and gentle experiments in session to help people notice what works for them and build new habits.
Progress is paced to each person’s comfort. Her license is Florida LMHC MH21470. Therapy sessions are available by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
To begin, a person completes a brief matching questionnaire and schedules based on the therapist’s availability.
How somatic and talk therapies work online
Somatic work focuses on how emotions show up in the body and uses gentle attention to physical sensations to help people feel less overwhelmed. Online sessions can include guided breath work, grounding exercises, and movement prompts that invite awareness of tension and release, which can help with anxiety, stress, and grief.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, uses values-based steps to help people act in ways that matter to them despite difficult thoughts or feelings. It often involves brief exercises and mindfulness practices to change the relationship to upsetting thoughts rather than trying to eliminate them. Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening, validation, and letting each person set the pace for change; it supports people who need a nonjudgmental space to talk through relationship or parenting concerns.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to try methods that fit a person's needs and goals, and adjust based on what feels most helpful. This teamwork helps shape a plan that is realistic and respectful of each person’s comfort.
Online formats offer flexibility for busy schedules and different comfort levels. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for exercises and somatic guidance, while phone, live chat, and text messaging can support brief check-ins, prompts, and between-session practice. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while juggling daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish