Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
How Lucie works
- Not listed
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Licensed in
- California
- Years in practice
- 17
- Languages
- English, French
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Lucie
Lucie Bornmann is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 17 years of clinical experience. She practices in California and brings a calm, steady presence to sessions. She communicates in English and French and adapts her pace to each person's needs.
She has worked in psychiatric public hospitals, foster care, and schools. Those settings shaped how she helps people manage stress, anxiety, anger, depression, and trauma. She also supports people facing big life changes and adjustment struggles.
Background and approach
Lucie uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address symptoms and everyday problems. In sessions she focuses on helping clients notice patterns, try new coping strategies, and practice small changes that add up over time. She aims to keep explanations plain and practical so people leave with usable tools.
Her background includes work with people who have obsessive behaviors, panic attacks, postpartum depression, and post-traumatic stress. She also addresses attachment challenges, communication problems, caregiver strain, and feelings of guilt or shame. These concerns often appear together, and she helps people sort which issue to tackle first.
Lucie works with people at different life stages to build resilience and clearer direction. She helps clients set realistic goals and tries techniques that fit daily life. Her approach is collaborative, steady, and oriented toward making change feel manageable.
What Lucie works with
Everything Lucie lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Lucie's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Evidence-Based Tools and Online Care
Lucie commonly uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that target thoughts, behavior, and emotional processing. Cognitive behavioral approaches focus on identifying unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and replacing them with practical alternatives that reduce anxiety, anger, and compulsive habits. Acceptance and commitment style work helps people notice difficult feelings, clarify personal values, and take small committed steps toward a meaningful life when avoidance has become limiting. Exposure-based approaches for trauma and panic involve gradual, supported practice of feared situations or memories so reactions can lessen over time.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Lucie will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and day-to-day life, then recommend approaches that seem to fit. She adjusts methods over time if something isn’t helping and invites feedback throughout treatment.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video lets therapists and clients work in real time and use visual cues. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or to fit a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging can support brief updates, homework, or ongoing coaching between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and different routines.
Questions people ask about Lucie
What concerns does Lucie help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, anger, depression, trauma and adjustment after life changes, plus related issues like OCD, panic, postpartum depression, and caregiver stress.
What is her therapeutic style?
She uses plain, practical language and evidence-based techniques to help people notice patterns, try coping strategies, and build daily habits that support change.
How long has she been practicing?
Lucie has 17 years of experience working in settings such as psychiatric public hospitals, foster care, schools, and clinical practice in California's Central Valley.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) licensed in California and practices from California.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English and French.
What formats are available for sessions?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging as session formats.
How are sessions priced?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.