About Marcia
Marcia Howard is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in California who uses practical, evidence-based methods to help people facing anxiety, stress, depression, and phobias. She speaks English, Spanish, and Portuguese and draws on 20 years of experience to guide people through hard moments. Her style is straightforward and collaborative, with an emphasis on building useful skills.
Marcia focuses on clear, goal-oriented work. She helps people notice unhelpful thought patterns and test new behaviors.
Background and approach
Sessions often include skill practice and short exercises to reduce overwhelm and increase confidence. She also integrates mindfulness to help people stay present when emotions feel intense. This can be useful for managing panic, anger, or persistent worry.
Mindful awareness is paired with techniques to change thoughts and habits. Solution-focused strategies are used to set small, measurable goals. Marcia works with clients to identify practical next steps and track progress.
This approach helps people make changes they can see and build momentum. Her background includes long-term work with people dealing with trauma, relationship strain, life transitions, grief, caregiving and aging concerns, and multicultural issues. She frames clients as the experts in their lives and supports them in finding options that fit their values and daily routines.
Evidence-based approaches for online care
Marcia commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy to address worry, panic, and avoidance. CBT focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through practical exercises that can be practiced between sessions. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing skills to reduce reactivity and calm the body when anxiety or strong emotions arise.Finding the right approach is a joint process. The therapist will discuss goals, habits, and preferences and then try techniques that fit the client’s life. Adjustments are made over time so the work stays relevant and manageable.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video lets people work face-to-face when helpful, phone sessions use less bandwidth, live chat can suit brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it easier to schedule care around work, school, caregiving, or travel while keeping the focus on real-world changes and skill practice.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish, Portuguese
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