About Marva
Dr. Marva Bourne is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in California. She has nine years of professional experience helping people cope with stress, anxiety, relationships, grief, depression, and other life challenges.
Her style is practical and down-to-earth, aimed at helping people make changes that feel manageable. She uses a mix of approaches to match a person's needs. That can include Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early bonds affect current relationships.
How Marva works
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Emotionally-Focused Therapy can open up conversations about feelings in close relationships. Her background includes work with adoption and foster care situations and with blended family concerns.
She also focuses on attachment issues, caregiver stress, grief, and addiction-related struggles. She brings an understanding of how trauma and early experiences shape behavior and relationships. Sessions aim to be collaborative and goal-oriented.
Dr. Bourne helps people set clear steps to try between meetings and checks progress over time. She supports coping skills for sleep, eating, parenting, and managing anger or obsessive thinking.
Therapy is offered in English and provided through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Costs vary with location and therapist availability and use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To begin, a person selects the Start Therapy button, completes a short matching questionnaire, and schedules according to therapist availability.
Marva lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Marva works with
The areas below are the ones Marva selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early connections shape current relationships and emotional responses. Online sessions can use conversation and guided reflection to identify patterns and practice new ways of relating, which helps with intimacy, attachment issues, and blended family concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. In online sessions CBT often includes brief exercises, thought records, and behavioral experiments that people can try between meetings to reduce anxiety, panic, compulsions, or depressive moods.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, needs, and preferences, then choose or combine approaches together. That collaborative planning helps shape the pace and focus of sessions so they feel useful and realistic.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer, interactive sessions and relationship work. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth. Live chat and messaging are practical for short check-ins, updates, and ongoing support between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to arrange around daily life.
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