About Margarita
Margarita Danielyan offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, trauma, or life changes. She introduces short, clear steps to help clients talk through difficult feelings and rebuild a sense of balance.
Background and approach
Margarita is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist - LMFT - with twenty years of experience in California and speaks English, Armenian, and Russian. She focuses on everyday problems like work strain, intimacy concerns, and the fallout from past abuse or traumatic events.
Sessions aim to make thinking and emotions easier to manage, not to unload jargon. Clients learn tools to handle strong feelings and improve communication in relationships.
Margarita blends a few different ways of working, including acceptance-based techniques and cognitive strategies that target unhelpful thinking patterns. She also uses listening-centered methods to create space for whatever a person brings to the session.
The goal is practical progress that fits each person’s life. Her approach is collaborative.
She asks about a person's priorities and tailors exercises and conversations to those goals. Progress is built in small steps, with attention to coping skills and real-world changes.
People often come for help with abandonment worries, attachment struggles, body image, guilt, or the stresses of immigration and aging. Margarita aims to help people move toward clearer choices and greater emotional steadiness in daily life.
How Margarita’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then move toward what matters most. It can be useful for anxiety, life transitions, and clarity about values.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns through specific exercises and practice. It often helps with stress, anxiety, and improving daily coping skills.
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, listening-based relationship where the client sets the pace and topics. This approach supports people who need space to process feelings and figure out next steps.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Margarita will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and daily routines, and together they decide which methods to try. That collaborative process means methods can be adjusted as needs change.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good for a fuller conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat and text work well for short check-ins or brief exercises during a busy day. These options give flexibility to fit therapy into work, family, or other commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Armenian, Russian