About Maribeth
Maribeth Capen is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 12 years of clinical experience in California. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and address problems like depression, addictions, and low self-esteem. Her approach is respectful and compassionate, and she works to create a practical plan that fits each person's situation.
She listens for what matters most and adapts conversations to match a client's needs. Sessions aim to build everyday skills for coping, improving motivation, and increasing confidence.
Background and approach
Maribeth emphasizes clear goals so progress feels tangible and manageable. Her work also covers relationship and family issues from an individual's perspective, along with trauma, grief, and challenges with sleep and eating. She supports people navigating life changes, career questions, or the long-term impact of chronic stress and compassion fatigue.
Maribeth has experience addressing attention challenges and mood disorders, including bipolar concerns, and she pays attention to cultural background and life stage. She encourages self-kindness and helps people reduce isolation and social anxiety through small, steady steps. Practical tools and steady support are central to her sessions.
She will collaborate on a plan that fits a client's schedule and goals. The aim is clearer thinking, better day-to-day coping, and more confidence in handling life’s demands.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Many clients benefit from evidence-based techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach emphasizes building coping skills for anxiety and stress through short, actionable exercises that can be used between sessions. These techniques help people lower daily tension, manage worry, and handle difficult moments more effectively.Another helpful method centers on mood and behavior patterns. It looks at how thoughts, habits, and routines affect depression and motivation, and it teaches simple steps to shift those patterns over time. This approach is useful for sleep and eating concerns, low energy, and getting unstuck when life changes feel overwhelming.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they will adjust methods so the plan feels practical and fits the client’s life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people work face to face when a visual connection helps. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging offer shorter, flexible touchpoints between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and everyday routines.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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