About Marco
Marco Regalado Chacon is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist practicing in California with six years of professional experience. He focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and supports those coping with addictions and depression. He also addresses concerns related to self-esteem and LGBT issues.
Marco aims to make the first step toward change feel more achievable. He keeps sessions open and nonjudgmental so people can say what they really feel.
Background and approach
Conversations are direct and practical. He helps clients name patterns, try small changes, and build skills that fit daily life. Marco pays attention to how early relationships and family history shape current struggles.
He often looks at attachment dynamics and family of origin issues to understand why someone may feel stuck. This helps when working through codependency, guilt, shame, or problems with self-worth. He also supports people facing complex stresses like immigration challenges, living with HIV/AIDS, cancer-related concerns, and multicultural issues.
He brings steady focus to clients dealing with trauma, personality concerns, seasonal mood shifts, and self-harm urges. Sessions typically move at the client’s pace, mixing talk with concrete steps to try between meetings. Marco encourages self-compassion and helps people rebuild confidence and clearer boundaries.
If someone needs flexible session formats, he offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Approaches that guide online sessions and what to expect
Marco uses evidence-based techniques that translate well to online formats. He often focuses on short-term skill building to manage anxiety and stress, teaching breathing, grounding, and cognitive strategies that reduce worry and help with daily functioning. These tools are practical and can be practiced between sessions to build confidence and reduce overwhelm.He also explores attachment-focused work to understand patterns in relationships and how early experiences affect current behavior. This helps with codependency, self-esteem, and feelings of isolation by identifying recurring patterns and creating new ways of relating. For people dealing with trauma or persistent mood challenges, he combines stabilization techniques with paced processing to reduce distress and increase emotional control.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences and adjust methods as progress is made. That means trying strategies, checking what works, and switching focus when needed so therapy fits the person’s life.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer talks and visual cues, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a brief check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving routines while keeping continuity of care.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Codependency
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Multicultural concerns
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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