About Mayra
Mayra Garcia is a licensed marriage and family therapist who keeps therapy straightforward and human. She aims to create a calm, respectful space where people can talk about stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and family concerns without feeling judged. Mayra speaks English and Spanish and practices in California.
She uses a collaborative and structured style. Sessions focus on identifying unhelpful patterns and trying small, realistic changes. Mayra balances warmth and clear guidance, and she brings some lightness when it helps reduce tension.
Background and approach
People often come for help with self-esteem, relationship communication, and the lasting effects of past abuse or trauma. She also supports those working through issues related to abandonment, attachment, blended family dynamics, or caregiving strain. Phobias are among the concerns she lists and can be part of the work.
Therapy is paced to each person. Mayra believes progress can begin with one small step and builds from there. She helps clients set practical goals and checks in about what is or isn’t working.
Her practice offers several online formats to fit busy lives, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Starting begins by completing a short questionnaire to match with her and scheduling a session.
Evidence-based approaches and online care that fit your life
Mayra draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on changing thoughts and behaviors and on repairing relationship patterns. Cognitive-focused work helps people notice unhelpful thinking and practice new responses, which can reduce anxiety and low mood. Attachment-informed strategies look at how early relationships affect current bonds and communication, useful for people managing relationship tension or attachment concerns.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before, then adapt techniques to fit those needs. Clients and the therapist decide together which methods to try and adjust as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Video sessions are good for face-to-face conversation, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and text messaging can be useful for shorter, ongoing support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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