About Marlene
Marlene Favors is a California licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, and self-esteem struggles. She speaks English and Spanish and brings eleven years of clinical experience to each session. Her style is direct and compassionate, aimed at helping people manage day-to-day pressures and make tangible changes.
Clients often come with big life changes or painful past experiences. Marlene focuses on practical skills that reduce anxiety and improve coping.
How Marlene works
Conversations are straightforward and aimed at building small routines that make a real difference in daily life. Her work draws on several evidence-based approaches to address emotions and behavior. She uses strategies that help people notice thoughts, choose values-driven actions, and learn emotion-regulation tools.
These methods are applied in ways that match each person’s situation and goals. Marlene has spent over a decade guiding people through concerns such as addiction, domestic violence aftermath, divorce and separation, caregiver stress, and immigration-related challenges. She also helps with issues like abandonment, attachment, guilt, shame, and feelings of emptiness.
Sessions emphasize clarity, practical steps, and steady progress. People who prefer speaking in Spanish can do so. Therapy is offered online through video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session that fits the person’s needs.
Marlene lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Marlene works with
The areas below are the ones Marlene selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Self esteem
- Self-love
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| 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 therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and reconnect with what matters to them. It focuses on actions aligned with personal values, which can reduce avoidance and increase a sense of purpose. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is useful for anxiety, stress, and problems with coping skills.Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and day-to-day challenges, then try methods that fit best. Over time the plan can be adjusted based on what works and what doesn’t.
Online therapy offers flexibility through several formats: video calls for a face-to-face feel, phone sessions for lower bandwidth or when being on camera isn’t ideal, live chat for quick check-ins, and text-based messaging for short updates or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or other responsibilities while still using the same evidence-based techniques discussed above.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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