About Marimar
Marimar Rosa Monge is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in California. She brings ten years of experience helping people cope with anxiety, depression, stress, and difficult family situations. Marimar speaks English and Spanish and aims to make conversations easy to follow for people juggling busy lives.
Her work focuses on concrete skills and gradual change. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and build better routines.
Background and approach
She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy and motivational interviewing to support emotional regulation and clearer decision making. Marimar often helps people who feel stuck after big life changes or who struggle with low self-esteem and isolation. She offers ways to improve communication, manage anger, and move through grief or guilt at a manageable pace.
Sessions include short-term strategies and longer-term practical steps based on each person’s needs. People can expect a collaborative tone in sessions. She listens for what matters most, then offers easy-to-try practices and small homework tasks when helpful.
Progress is measured in real-life changes rather than labels or jargon. Her approach also attends to health-related stress such as chronic illness and postpartum depression, and to relationship styles including polyamory and non-monogamy. Marimar aims to create a respectful space where clients can sort priorities and find forward motion.
Approach-driven care for online therapy
Marimar commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness approaches in online sessions. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of thinking, which can reduce anxiety and depressive patterns. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to lower reactivity and improve focus during stressful moments.She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy techniques to teach emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills. These methods are practical and skills-based, useful for managing strong emotions and impulsivity in everyday life. Choosing the right mix of approaches is part of the work together - she collaborates with each person to decide which techniques match their goals and comfort level.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and practicing new skills together. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging are helpful for short updates, quick coaching, or keeping momentum between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to use approaches in real-life contexts.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish