Marjorie Fagan
Practical support for parents and life transitions
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Marjorie
Marjorie Fagan is a licensed marriage and family therapist who focuses on helping parents and individuals find clearer ways forward. She speaks plainly and aims to make therapy feel manageable for a parent juggling daily demands. Marjorie offers practical steps for stress, anxiety, grief, parenting challenges, and life transitions so families can function more smoothly.
Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. She listens first, then suggests small, concrete strategies to try between sessions.
Background and approach
She does not present herself as someone who fixes everything, but as a partner in figuring out what helps most in real life. Marjorie trained and worked across different clinical settings over 14 years. That breadth of experience shaped an approach that blends short-term, solution-focused work with deeper exploration when needed.
She uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness alongside psychodynamic ideas about how patterns from the past affect present choices. Sessions are offered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, which can suit a busy family schedule. Her practice operates in California and sessions are conducted in English.
To begin, a parent completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules sessions based on the therapist's availability. The practice uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, and cost varies with location and availability.
How Marjorie Uses Therapy Approaches Online
Many people benefit from clear tools they can use between sessions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying out new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety or depression. It is practical and goal-oriented, often useful for stress, worry, and mood concerns.Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to help manage strong emotions and stay present. Those skills can ease reactivity, support coping during life changes, and complement other techniques used in sessions.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and recommend methods that fit a client's needs. This process is collaborative, and plans can be adjusted as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy households. Video calls let the therapist see family dynamics and nonverbal cues, phone sessions work when screens are not possible, and live chat or text-based messaging provides short, immediate check-ins. These options help parents and caregivers fit therapy into their schedules while maintaining continuity of care.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
Psychodynamic Therapy
Exploring how earlier relationships and patterns still shape the present, often over a longer stretch of time. It relies on conversation and reflection rather than exercises.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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