About Hourig
Hourig Kalajian is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in California. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship strain, and other life challenges in a calm and straightforward way. Her approach aims to reduce overwhelm and make starting therapy feel simpler for worried parents and busy adults.
Hourig takes a whole-person view rather than treating symptoms alone. She uses interventions that fit each person’s situation and builds sessions around what matters most to the client.
Background and approach
Conversations are person-centered and practical, with attention to day-to-day coping skills and clearer problem solving. Her background includes several years working directly with children and adolescents in schools, homes, and community settings. That experience informs how she approaches issues like parenting stress, family problems, and emotional difficulties seen in young people.
It also shaped her comfort with varied communication styles and developmental concerns. Hourig draws on therapies that help people notice unhelpful patterns, set workable goals, and act in ways that match their values. She supports people facing grief, career transitions, ADHD-related struggles, panic attacks, or compassion fatigue.
Sessions aim to be practical and focused on what will change daily life. Her work style is collaborative and straightforward. She listens, helps clarify goals, and teaches tools clients can use between sessions.
Hourig combines school-based experience with her LMFT training to offer clear support for common stressors and anxiety.
Therapeutic approaches and how they translate online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, clarify what matters to them, and take small steps toward those values. It is often used for anxiety, stress, and life transitions where people want less reactivity and more action aligned with purpose.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and testing new ways of thinking and acting. It can help with panic attacks, social anxiety, depression, and daily coping strategies by practicing skills in real situations.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Hourig will work with each person to decide which tools fit their needs and goals. Together they set priorities, try methods in short experiments, and adjust what they do based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video is useful for longer therapy work and seeing body language, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low, live chat suits quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing coaching or brief reflections between appointments. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around school, work, and family life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Depression
Also listed
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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