About Tareen
Tareen Mekany is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) practicing in California. She has six years of experience helping people facing anxiety, stress, depression, and relationship concerns. Tareen meets people where they are and focuses on practical steps that feel doable in everyday life.
She uses a collaborative style that blends listening with structured guidance. Sessions are personalized to each person's situation, whether they are coping with a major life change or working on self-esteem and confidence.
How Tareen works
Tareen aims to make sessions clear and easy to follow so progress feels real. Common topics she addresses include communication problems, attachment and abandonment concerns, and feelings of guilt or shame. She also helps people managing chronic illness or caregiver stress, and those dealing with body image, loneliness, or issues around commitment and jealousy.
Her background supports people who want to examine life purpose and forgiveness as part of healing. Tareen offers several formats for talking through concerns, from video calls to phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. She explains options and helps people pick what matches their schedule and comfort.
The focus is on steady progress through practical strategies and honest conversation. Beginning therapy with Tareen involves a short matching process and scheduling that fits the client's timing. She works in a respectful, nonjudgmental way aimed at building clarity and forward momentum.
What Tareen works with
The areas below are the ones Tareen selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Evidence-based therapeutic techniques focus on changing unhelpful thought patterns and improving relationship skills. One common approach helps people identify and shift thinking that fuels anxiety and low mood, teaching practical steps to test unhelpful beliefs and build more balanced thinking. Another approach focuses on communication and attachment, helping people recognize patterns in relationships and practice clearer ways of connecting and setting boundaries.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust the plan as progress unfolds, keeping the process collaborative and responsive.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and visual cues, phone calls can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat can work for shorter check-ins, and text messaging lets people send thoughts between sessions. These options aim to increase flexibility and make it easier to keep steady progress.
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