About Marina
Marina Alexander is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who brings 16 years of clinical experience to her work in California. She focuses on helping adults facing anxiety, depression, addiction, parenting challenges, grief, and major life changes.
Background and approach
Her style is straightforward and warm, aimed at helping people make clear choices that improve daily life. Marina uses practical tools you can try right away.
She helps people gain clarity when they feel stuck and supports steps toward change. Sessions emphasize understanding what matters to you and finding manageable actions to feel better.
Her background includes experience with cognitive and emotion-focused methods as well as mindfulness and solution-oriented strategies. She also has training in the Triple P - Positive Parenting Program and has helped parents manage disruptive child behaviors.
That mix gives her options to tailor each session to a person's needs. Having lived in multiple countries, Marina brings cultural sensitivity to her work and pays attention to individual context and life history.
She aims to create an accepting space where people can speak openly and be heard without judgment. She typically helps people sort through relationship tensions, intimacy-related concerns, self-esteem struggles, sleeping and eating issues, anger, bipolar symptoms, compassion fatigue, and coping after trauma.
The approach is collaborative and focused on practical steps that fit daily life.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Marina uses cognitive-based work that helps people notice and change thought patterns that drive anxiety and low mood. That approach breaks down unhelpful thoughts and teaches practical ways to test and shift them. She also draws on emotion-focused methods that help identify core feelings and improve how people respond in close relationships. These techniques can be useful for intimacy issues, relationship tension, and grief.Finding the right approach is a team effort. Marina will discuss goals, preferences, and life demands to choose techniques that fit each person. She adapts the plan over time based on what is and isn’t working so clients stay involved in the direction of care.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video sessions are good for deeper conversations and nonverbal cues, while phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat or messaging can be helpful for brief check-ins, skill practice between sessions, or when someone prefers written communication. These formats make scheduling easier and let people fit therapy into busy or changing lives.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- 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