About Marea
Marea Murray uses client-centered and mindfulness-based approaches to help people manage stress, anxiety, relationship worries, and trauma. She takes a calm, straightforward style and focuses on what matters most to each person. Marea is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and she draws on many years of practice to guide conversations and plan steps forward.
Her work often includes looking at how past relationships, family patterns, and identity concerns shape present struggles.
Background and approach
She helps people talk through self-esteem, sexuality, and the effects of prejudice and discrimination. Practical coping skills and short-term goals are common parts of sessions. Marea also integrates somatic methods to help people notice how the body holds stress.
That can be especially useful for trauma, post-traumatic stress, and anxiety. Mindfulness tools are offered to build attention and reduce reactivity in daily life. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques appear when clients want clear steps and change plans.
These approaches are chosen to match what an individual needs, whether they want brief focused work or longer exploration. She has worked in the field for many years and brings that experience to each appointment. Sessions are available by video or phone during weekdays.
The focus is on practical, doable changes and helping people feel more steady in day-to-day life.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and tailoring sessions to each person's needs. The therapist follows the client's lead, reflecting concerns and helping clarify goals, which works well for stress, relationship worries, and questions about sexuality.Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention practices to reduce reactivity and calm anxious thoughts. These practices are useful for managing anxiety, rumination, and moments of strong emotion during daily life.
Somatic methods invite people to notice body sensations tied to stress and trauma. That gentle attention can reduce tension and help process difficult memories without relying only on words.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods to try first and will adjust plans based on how things are going. Clients often combine techniques to get practical tools and longer-term insight.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video helps with face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit into a busy day. Live chat and messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, written reflections, or when steady communication over time is preferred. These options make it easier to keep regular appointments and try different ways of working together.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Family of origin issues
- HIV / AIDS
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 36 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English