Marina Alexander
Clear, practical therapy for parents and adults
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Marina
Marina Alexander is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who brings 16 years of clinical experience to her practice in California. She focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, parenting challenges, addictive behaviors, and life transitions. Her approach is straightforward and practical, aimed at giving parents clear steps they can use right away.
Marina offers a calm, accepting space where clients can talk about tough topics without judgment. She listens for what matters most to each person and helps sort through options when choices feel confusing or overwhelming.
Background and approach
That focus on clarity often shifts feelings of helplessness toward action. Her background includes training in cognitive behavior therapy, emotionally focused therapy, mindfulness-based methods, solution-focused therapy, and the Triple P - Positive Parenting Program. She uses those tools to teach skills for managing anxiety, improving sleep and eating patterns, and handling parenting stress and disruptive behaviors.
Marina also draws on her own experience with major life changes and living in different countries to offer culturally aware care. She aims to help people understand their situation, gain confidence in decisions, and try practical steps that fit their lives.
Sessions are offered in English and can include a mix of short-term skills work and longer support depending on what a person needs. She invites parents and adults who want clear, usable strategies to begin by taking a first step toward support.
Practical approaches and flexible online care
Marina often uses cognitive behavior therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. This approach is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep or eating changes, and for building coping skills.She also draws on emotionally focused therapy to help people identify strong feelings and improve how they respond to them. That work can reduce overwhelmed reactions and build steadier emotional responses during stressful times.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Marina will talk with each person about their goals, try methods that fit their situation, and adjust the plan together as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy accessible around busy schedules. These options let parents and adults fit short skills work or regular check-ins into their day without long travel time, and allow ongoing care for people who live far from her California base or outside the country.
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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
Next step
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- Stop at any point