About Marina
Marina Alexander is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California. She has worked in psychotherapy for 16 years and helps adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Marina emphasizes practical steps that help people feel less stuck and more capable of making decisions that fit their lives.
She encourages clients to name the problem and try tools that bring quick relief. Sessions focus on clear, doable strategies and on building understanding about what drives current reactions.
Background and approach
Marina offers a supportive space where people can speak openly and be met with acceptance. Her background includes work with addictive behaviors, parenting challenges, relationship and marital conflicts, grief and loss, trauma and abuse, and bipolar concerns. She has experience helping parents manage disruptive behaviors using positive parenting ideas, and she draws on approaches useful for anxiety, sleeping and eating issues.
Marina has lived in multiple countries, which she says improved her cultural awareness and ability to relate to varied life stories. She blends that perspective with evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help clients clarify values and choose changes that work for them. Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth.
Clients can expect straightforward conversation, tools they can try between sessions, and support in making gradual changes. Marina aims to help people move from feeling trapped to feeling they have options and agency.
Approaches that help with anxiety and life change
Evidence-based techniques help guide the work together. Cognitive Behavioral approaches focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors that reduce anxiety and improve mood. This method helps when worry, sleep problems, or eating concerns get in the way of daily life.Mindfulness-based work teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase present-moment calm. These skills are often useful for stress, anger, and coping with difficult emotions. Solution-focused ideas emphasize small, achievable changes and quick steps that build forward momentum during life transitions.
Finding the right fit is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose approaches that match their goals, preferences, and practical needs. Together they’ll try methods, notice what helps, and adjust the plan over time.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow a face-to-face conversation from wherever someone is located. Phone sessions can be a good option when video is difficult or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging provide brief check-ins and shorter touchpoints between sessions. These options increase flexibility and help people keep therapy going when schedules are tight.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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