Marcia Howard

Marcia Howard is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in California. She brings two decades of clinical experience to sessions and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, anger, and relationship struggles. She works in English, Spanish, and Portuguese and aims to support practical change in everyday life.

Marcia believes people know their own story and can draw on existing strengths to move forward. In the room she listens for what matters most and helps clients set small, achievable goals. She frames progress as steady steps rather than instant fixes.

Her approach draws from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to help people change unhelpful thinking and build emotion-regulation skills. She also uses mindfulness practices to reduce reactivity and solution-focused techniques to identify clear next steps for immediate problems.

Marcia has worked with a wide range of life challenges over 20 years, including trauma, eating concerns, coping with life changes, and issues related to aging and multicultural stressors. She offers support for people dealing with divorce, codependency, grief, and vocational concerns.

Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time; cost varies with location and therapist availability. International clients are not accepted. To begin, users select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Marcia uses cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness-based practices to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and respond differently. CBT focuses on spotting thought patterns that feed anxiety or anger and testing new, more helpful ways of thinking. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing exercises to reduce reactivity and increase moment-to-moment calm.

Finding the right approach is collaborative. Marcia will talk with each person about their goals, daily routine, and what feels doable. Together they decide which techniques to try first and adjust the plan as progress is made or needs change.

Session logistics are not specified in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life by avoiding travel, allowing shorter check-ins during a workday, or letting people use sessions when they can be quieter and more focused. Licensed professionals can adapt CBT and mindfulness exercises to work well in a virtual setting and to support steady skill practice between meetings.