Marco Iglesias, LMFT
Practical support for grief, trauma, and life change
About Marco
Marco Iglesias is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in California. He has five years of professional experience helping people navigate grief, trauma and abuse, LGBT concerns, family conflict, and other major life changes.
Background and approach
He speaks English and Spanish and aims to make the first step toward help feel manageable. He focuses on creating an open, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about what matters most.
Sessions emphasize listening first, then practical steps a person can try between meetings. Marco works at a steady pace and checks in often to make sure the work feels useful.
Many people seek support for abandonment, attachment issues, and codependency, and Marco offers guidance on those topics in clear, everyday language. He also helps people process forgiveness, find life purpose, and handle midlife transitions.
Trauma and post-traumatic stress concerns are addressed with attention to safety and pacing. Marco brings a multicultural awareness to therapy and pays attention to cultural context when it affects relationships or identity.
He helps people sort through relationship patterns and make concrete changes that fit their life. Sessions are offered using a range of online formats.
Marco encourages straightforward goals and step-by-step plans so progress is visible. He explains options in plain terms and supports each person as they try out new ways of coping and relating.
Approaches and online support for trauma and life change
Two common evidence-based approaches used in therapy focus on understanding how past experiences shape current reactions and on building practical coping skills. One approach looks at attachment and relational patterns to help people recognize how early relationships influence present behavior and close connections. This helps when abandonment or codependency are central concerns. Another approach emphasizes skills for managing stress, intrusive memories, and intense emotions after trauma; it teaches breathing, grounding, and paced exposure techniques to reduce distress and increase tolerance.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to a person's goals, try different methods where needed, and adjust the plan together based on what helps most. Clients are invited to share preferences and questions as part of shaping treatment.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows rapid check-ins, and messaging supports short updates or ongoing reflection between sessions. These options can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep continuity of care when schedules change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish