About Marlene
Marlene Favors is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people facing stress and anxiety find clearer ways to cope. She speaks English and Spanish and draws on more than a decade of clinical experience to support practical change. Many come for help with addiction, low self-esteem, anger, or the strain of life changes.
Marlene focuses on everyday steps that make tough moments feel more manageable. She listens for patterns that keep people stuck and works with them to try different skills.
Background and approach
Sessions are straightforward and aimed at building tools that can be used between meetings. Her approach combines Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to target unhelpful thoughts and to clarify personal values. She also uses elements of Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Motivational Interviewing when clients need emotion regulation skills or help resolving mixed motivation about change.
Marlene has 11 years of experience practicing in California as an LMFT. That background informs her skill at helping people navigate divorce, caregiver stress, immigration-related issues, and other major life shifts. Clients can expect a calm, nonjudgmental setting where concrete goals are prioritized.
The work often includes skill practice, problem-solving, and checking what does and doesn’t help. Progress is measured in small, realistic steps toward greater emotional balance and clearer choices.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts without getting stuck and clarify what matters most to them so they can act in meaningful directions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and uses practical exercises to reduce anxiety and change unhelpful patterns.Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will work with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and personal style. Sessions may combine techniques so clients learn both thinking skills and emotion regulation tools that match their situation.
Online therapy offers flexibility to fit into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be a good shorter check-in, live chat suits quick exchanges, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflections between meetings. These options make it easier to try different formats and keep momentum while learning new skills.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Self esteem
- Self-love
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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