About Marilyn
Marilyn Hall is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in California who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She brings a calm, practical approach and focuses on everyday steps that make life feel more manageable. Her work is grounded in respect and a clear goal of being of service to clients.
She has 24 years of experience supporting people through tough transitions. That includes separation and divorce, grief, trauma, and mood challenges like depression and bipolar concerns.
Background and approach
She also helps with relationship strain, parenting questions, and career stress. In sessions she listens first and then helps clients try workable strategies. She draws on methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques and acceptance-based ideas to reduce overwhelm.
She also attends to attachment and relationship patterns that affect intimacy and communication. Marilyn uses practical tools alongside open conversation. That might mean learning new skills for handling strong emotions, trying different ways to talk about difficult topics, or setting small goals that lead to clearer choices.
The aim is steady progress you can notice between sessions. Her work also addresses identity and multicultural concerns, including LGBT matters and the special pressures people face when life shifts. People who choose her often want straightforward coaching and lasting skills as they move through change.
Approach, methods, and online options
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then take values-guided steps toward a meaningful life. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and navigating big life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people spot unhelpful thinking and try different behaviors to reduce symptoms. It offers concrete tools for managing worry, low mood, and day-to-day coping. Attachment-Based work looks at how early relationship patterns show up now and can be changed to improve intimacy and communication.
Deciding which approach to use is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they will try strategies and adjust the plan based on what is helping and what is not.
Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to allow flexibility. Video lets people work face-to-face when that matters. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth or motion is limited. Live chat or text messaging can fit quick check-ins, short coaching moments, or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue work during life transitions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- California, Oregon
- Languages
- English
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