About Philippa
Philippa Mariner is a licensed clinical social worker in California with six years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people reduce stress and anxiety, cope with life changes, and build stronger self-esteem. Philippa centers her work on each person’s strengths and life story.
Her approach is straightforward and practical. Sessions usually focus on identifying concrete steps that make daily life feel more manageable. She guides clients through relationship concerns, grief, addiction struggles, mood challenges like depression and bipolar symptoms, and issues around intimacy and sexual identity.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing workplace stress, career questions, and parenting strain. Philippa pays attention to how past experiences shape current patterns, especially around abandonment, guilt, and shame. She helps people recognize unhelpful habits and try new ways of communicating and coping.
When trauma or abuse is part of someone’s history, she moves at a pace the person can handle. Clients who reach out often want clear tools as well as a listening ear. Philippa offers practical strategies for managing anxiety, anger, and attention-related challenges, and she helps people clarify life purpose during midlife or major transitions.
She also works with cancer-related stress and caregiver burden. Sessions are offered in English and delivered online in a variety of formats. Philippa aims to make therapy feel collaborative, respectful, and focused on real-world results for everyday life.
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Philippa uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people manage symptoms and build coping skills. One common approach focuses on practical skill building to reduce anxiety and improve mood through structured strategies and behavior changes that can be practiced between sessions. Another approach emphasizes processing past hurts and understanding how they affect current relationships and self-worth, helping people try different responses and heal from trauma and abandonment wounds.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which methods to try and make adjustments as progress is made so the work matches real needs and daily life.
Online therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different lifestyles. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone calls can work when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins, and chat or messaging suits people who prefer writing or need brief, frequent touchpoints. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care around work, caregiving, or other commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English