About Marilyn
Marilyn Hall helps people who are stressed, anxious, grieving, or facing big life changes. She supports those dealing with relationship and family strains, mood disorders, trauma, and questions about identity and intimacy. Marilyn is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, practicing in California with 24 years of experience.
She keeps sessions practical and down-to-earth. She listens first, and then offers tools that fit each person's situation. Conversations focus on what is happening now and on small steps people can try between meetings.
How Marilyn works
Marilyn uses several well-known approaches to guide work in therapy. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take action. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and build new habits.
Attachment-based ideas help when relationship patterns and early family dynamics are part of the struggle. Her background includes long experience with depression, bipolar mood disorders, anxiety, grief, and trauma and abuse. She also helps with parenting concerns, blended family issues, adoption and foster care matters, and career or life purpose questions.
Marilyn works with people facing guilt, shame, isolation, and multicultural issues. Sessions are offered via video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Marilyn aims to meet people where they are and help them move toward clearer goals and better day-to-day coping.
Marilyn lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Marilyn works with
The areas below are the ones Marilyn selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 24 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people get clear about what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, life transitions, and when someone feels stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce distress and build better routines. It often helps with mood disorders, anxiety, and seasonal affective symptoms. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current reactions and connection styles, and it can help with intimacy-related issues and family patterns.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk about what matters most to the client, try methods that match those goals, and adjust over time. Clients and the therapist decide together which strategies to keep using and which to change based on progress and preference.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good when seeing facial cues and body language helps a conversation. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or for a simpler check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging let people fit brief conversations into a busy day or keep a running thread of support between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule sessions around work, caregiving, and other commitments.
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