About Marcia
Marcia Howard is a licensed clinical social worker with two decades of experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, depression, and major life changes. She speaks English, Spanish, and Portuguese and works with individuals who want practical tools to feel better and cope more easily. She focuses on clear, short-term strategies alongside skills for emotional regulation.
Marcia often uses straightforward techniques to reduce worry, manage strong feelings, and address problems that get in the way of daily life.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to be goal-oriented and action focused so progress feels visible. Marcia draws on cognitive behavioral approaches to help people notice unhelpful thinking and try different behaviors. She also uses dialectical behavior ideas to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills.
Mindfulness practices and solution-focused conversations are woven in to build calm and find concrete next steps. Her background includes counseling around trauma and abuse, relationship and family stress, eating and body image concerns, grief, and issues tied to aging or major life transitions. She supports people working through guilt, shame, career questions, and identity-related stress in multicultural contexts.
People who choose her often want a practical, respectful guide rather than long, open-ended therapy. She encourages clients to set clear goals and to try small experiments between sessions. The aim is steady improvement and skills that can be used long after therapy ends.
Therapeutic approaches for anxiety and life stress online
Marcia commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy in online sessions. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and depression. Dialectical behavior therapy emphasizes practical skills for regulating intense emotions, tolerating distress, and improving relationships, which can help when feelings feel overwhelming.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Marcia will work with each person to match techniques to their needs and goals, adjusting methods as progress is made. Clients and the therapist decide together which skills and strategies to prioritize so therapy stays relevant to real life.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people see facial cues and practice skills in real time. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit into short breaks. Live chat or text can be useful for quick check-ins, step-by-step coaching, or when writing feels easier than talking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep working on skills between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish, Portuguese
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