About Annette
Annette Malijen is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 25 years of professional experience in California. She helps people who are struggling with anxiety, stress, depression, relationship concerns, and addictions. Annette aims to meet people where they are and treats each person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion.
Her approach is practical and conversational. She listens first, then tailors sessions and plans to each person's needs. Sessions focus on useful strategies for managing symptoms, improving communication, and building coping skills that fit real life.
Background and approach
Annette draws on client-centered therapy to keep the work grounded in the person's own goals and values. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try new behaviors. Together these approaches support change through clear steps and ongoing feedback.
Over her career she has supported people facing grief, trauma and abuse, intimacy challenges, parenting stress, sleep and eating concerns, anger, self-esteem and career transitions. She also offers help for compassion fatigue and LGBT-related concerns. Her style is steady and person-focused, and she adjusts pace to what feels manageable for each person.
Taking that first step can feel hard. Annette encourages clients to take it at their own rhythm and works with them to set goals they can actually use between sessions.
How Annette’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the person's lead. It helps people clarify what matters to them and shape goals that feel personally meaningful. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and uses structured steps to change unhelpful patterns and try new ways of coping. Together these approaches combine empathetic listening with practical tools for stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Annette partners with each person to decide what methods fit their needs and preferences. She adjusts the pace, checks in on what is or isn't working, and shifts focus as goals change so the plan stays useful and manageable.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video lets people use visual cues for deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging support brief check-ins, homework discussions, and ongoing coaching between longer sessions. These options help fit therapy into busy days and varied schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Depression
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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