About Marlene
Marlene Norwood is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California with twenty years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress and anxiety. Her work also covers depression, self-esteem struggles, motivation, and life transitions.
Marlene starts by listening. She treats each person as the expert in their own life and helps them build on existing strengths. Sessions aim to be straightforward and goal-oriented.
Background and approach
The tone is encouraging and focused on small, achievable steps. Her approach draws on client-centered methods that center the person's experience and preferences. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot and shift unhelpful thinking patterns.
Mindfulness practices are offered to reduce reactivity and increase present-moment awareness. Marlene helps people sort through relationship and communication problems, workplace stress, and parenting challenges. She also supports those facing grief, eating concerns, or issues related to identity and sexual orientation.
She works with people coping with ADHD, social anxiety, and feelings of isolation. Sessions are practical and collaborative. Marlene mixes short-term strategies with deeper self-reflection, depending on what a person needs.
She encourages steady progress and honors the effort it takes to make changes.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's perspective and priorities. The therapist listens without judgment and helps the person name goals and find their own answers; this approach is useful for building self-trust and confidence.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches practical techniques for noticing unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors, which can help with anxiety and low mood.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase calm. These exercises can be used between sessions to manage stress and nervousness.
Marlene works with clients to choose or combine approaches based on their goals and preferences. Figuring out the best method is a team effort and can shift as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions need less bandwidth, and live chat or text messaging suit brief check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options help fit therapy into work breaks, caregiving schedules, or when travel is difficult.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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