Marlene Favors, LMFT

Marlene Favors is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in California who helps people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, and self-esteem struggles. She focuses on practical steps people can use during tough life changes. Her style is warm and straightforward, aimed at helping clients find clearer thinking and steadier emotion.

With 11 years of clinical experience, Marlene supports people through divorce, midlife shifts, and other major transitions. She also helps those dealing with attachment and abandonment concerns, caregiver stress, and the effects of isolation or immigration-related strain. Sessions often look at patterns that keep someone stuck and teach small, repeatable skills to change them.

Her work draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to change unhelpful thoughts and build values-based action. Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Motivational Interviewing inform skills for emotion regulation and motivation when addiction or strong feelings are involved. The result is a mix of practical tools and reflective conversation.

Marlene uses clear goals and homework people can try between sessions. She emphasizes steady progress rather than quick fixes. Many clients find this approach helpful when coping with grief, guilt, or feeling overwhelmed by life changes.

Sessions are offered in English and Spanish. This profile appears in a Supporting carers directory because Marlene addresses caregiver issues and stress among her focus areas.

How therapy approaches work online

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings and still choose actions that match their values. It is useful when someone feels stuck by fear or doubt but wants a clearer sense of purpose.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors keep problems going and teaches simple experiments to change them. This approach often helps with anxiety, low mood, and building everyday coping skills.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, day-to-day challenges, and which methods feel most useful. That conversation guides which techniques are tried and adjusted over time in a collaborative way.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm the session formats before booking so they match your needs. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when a quick conversation will help. It also lets people try different tools from home and bring real-life situations into sessions for immediate problem-solving.