About Malia
Malia Holbeck is a licensed clinical social worker with 18 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She emphasizes a straightforward, respectful approach that centers on each person's strengths. She encourages people who feel overwhelmed to take the first step and acknowledges that starting therapy takes courage.
Her work focuses on practical problems that show up in daily life. She helps people address addictions, career challenges, depression, and major life changes.
Background and approach
She also supports those dealing with compassion fatigue, chronic pain, illness, or disability and helps with smoking or vaping cessation and seasonal mood shifts. Malia uses methods that aim for clear, achievable change. She draws on Client-Centered Therapy to build a trusting relationship and on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to untangle thoughts and behaviors that feed anxiety and low mood.
Motivational Interviewing helps when people are ambivalent about change, and Solution-Focused Therapy keeps work goal-oriented and concrete. Her experience spans community mental health and related settings in South Dakota. She values working with real-life stressors like workplace issues and financial strain alongside emotional concerns.
Sessions focus on practical steps, coping strategies, and realistic goals that fit each person's life. Malia practices in English and holds licenses as an LCSW (Licensed Clinical Social Worker) and CSW-PIP (Clinical Social Worker - PIP). She offers a calm, direct style that helps people move from feeling stuck to making manageable changes.
How Malia’s Approaches Work Online
Malia blends Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people make practical changes. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's perspective so they feel heard. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the connection between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches skills to shift unhelpful patterns.She treats approach selection as a collaborative process. The therapist and client review problems, goals, and preferences together to decide which methods to try first. Plans are adjusted over time based on what works and what feels doable for the person.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to give options that fit busy lives. Video calls let people work face-to-face when bandwidth and time allow. Phone sessions can be easier when video isn't practical or when someone needs a quick check-in. Messaging and live chat work well for brief updates, ongoing coaching, or when a written record of the conversation is helpful. These formats increase flexibility and make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or health routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Money and financial issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- South Dakota, Arizona
- Languages
- English
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