About Marcia
Marcia Howard uses practical, evidence-based methods to help people manage stressful life moments. She brings 20 years of clinical experience as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in California. Marcia speaks English, Spanish, and Portuguese and aims to make sessions straightforward and focused on real change.
She often blends cognitive behavioral tools with mindfulness and skills from dialectical behavior therapy. In sessions she helps people notice harmful thoughts, practice calmer responses, and try small experiments to shift patterns.
How Marcia works
Marcia also uses solution-focused techniques to set clear, achievable goals and track progress. Common concerns she addresses include stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, self-esteem struggles, and trouble coping with life changes. She also supports people facing relationship strain, eating and food-related issues, anger, and career stress.
Additional focus areas include aging and geriatric issues, codependency, divorce and separation, domestic violence, guilt and shame, HIV/AIDS, hospice and end-of-life counseling, immigration issues, veteran and armed forces issues, mood disorders, and multicultural concerns. Marcia keeps sessions practical and action-oriented. She works with clients to build skills they can use between meetings.
Progress is measured in small, concrete steps so people can see change over weeks and months. Her California license and two decades of practice inform a calm, steady approach. People who want clear tools and respectful support often find her style direct but warm.
Marcia lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Marcia works with
The areas below are the ones Marcia selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
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
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How evidence-based tools translate to online care
Marcia commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes that reduce anxiety and low mood. CBT is practical and focuses on exercises you can practice between sessions to see real movement on daily problems.She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills and mindfulness practices to build emotional regulation and distress tolerance. DBT-style skills teach specific techniques for managing intense emotions, while mindfulness helps increase present-moment awareness and reduce rumination.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before, then recommend approaches to try. Decisions are collaborative and can be adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. Video lets you have a face-to-face conversation, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and messaging lets you reflect in writing between sessions. These options aim to make care more flexible and accessible while keeping the focus on clinical progress.
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