About Mariah
Mariah Funderburg offers supportive, straightforward care for people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, and changes that feel overwhelming. She greets each person with warmth and a nonjudgmental tone, helping them name what’s hard and find practical steps forward.
Background and approach
Mariah is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California. She brings three years of clinical experience working with people who have faced trauma, chronic stress, and relationship-related concerns.
Sessions focus on building safety, trust, and skills that can be used between meetings. In therapy Mariah uses evidence-based techniques to help with panic, low self-esteem, and repeated patterns that cause pain.
She teaches relaxation and stress management tools, movement toward self-love, and clearer communication habits. The work is collaborative - clients and therapist set goals together and track progress.
People who identify as LGBTQ often find the practice to be affirming and respectful of identity and culture. Mariah also addresses caregiver stress, body image worries, attachment concerns, and life transitions like separation or pregnancy and childbirth.
She pays attention to how guilt, shame, and isolation show up in everyday life. Sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, so people can choose what fits their day.
Mariah emphasizes small, doable steps so change feels manageable and not overwhelming.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Mariah draws from evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on safety, skills, and practical change. One approach emphasizes trauma-informed care, which means paying close attention to how past hurts affect current reactions and building steady, predictable steps to reduce overwhelm. This work helps with panic, post-traumatic stress, and intense anxiety symptoms.Another common focus is skill-based stress and emotion regulation. That includes teaching breathing and relaxation practices, grounding tools for panic, and ways to notice and shift unhelpful thoughts. These techniques are useful for everyday stress, mood shifts, and managing panic attacks.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will ask about goals, try different methods, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. Clients and therapist check in together about progress and change the focus when needed.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is helpful for in-depth conversation and learning new skills while seeing facial cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth or camera use is difficult. Live chat and text are useful for short check-ins, processing between sessions, or fitting therapy into a busy day. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and fit it into real life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English