Mariah Larkin, LMFT
Compassionate, experienced therapist helping people live authentically
About Mariah
Mariah Larkin is a licensed marriage and family therapist with three decades of clinical experience in California. She brings a warm, interactive manner to sessions and focuses on anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, and questions around identity and life direction.
Background and approach
Mariah aims to help people create lives where they feel more authentic and grounded. She draws from a range of approaches to match each person's needs.
That can mean short-term work using practical tools to manage symptoms or longer-term exploration of deeper patterns that show up in dreams and everyday life. Mariah often blends mindfulness and psychospiritual practices when clients want that dimension included.
Sessions are conversational and relational. She encourages honesty and offers steady, compassionate feedback while helping clients notice repeating patterns.
Practical skills are taught alongside reflective work so people leave with tools they can use between sessions. Mariah has experience with people in alternative and creative lifestyles and pays attention to multicultural concerns and gender issues.
She also focuses on men’s issues, body image, self-love, and midlife questions as requested. Her work can address specific problems like obsessive thoughts, post-traumatic stress, seasonal mood shifts, social anxiety, and questions about life purpose.
Mariah combines talk-based methods with experiential methods such as music imagery and hypnotherapy when those fit the goals. The first session is an opportunity to map concerns and set priorities together.
From there she adjusts pace and technique so therapy fits each person’s goals and daily life.
Approaches that translate well to online work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and supporting someone to find their own answers; it’s useful for anxiety, stress, and relationship questions where feeling heard helps change how you relate. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) concentrates on understanding and shifting emotional responses that drive relationship patterns and personal distress; it can help people notice and change repeating interaction habits. Existential Therapy invites people to examine meaning, life purpose, and the choices that shape a life, which can be helpful for midlife questions and finding direction.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist collaborates with each person to pick methods that match goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. That might mean combining short-term skills with deeper exploration over time and adjusting the plan as work unfolds.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets you use visual cues and mirrors in-session work closely. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat or text messaging can support brief check-ins, between-session coaching, or ongoing coaching-style communication. These options make scheduling more flexible and help people fit therapy around work, travel, or busy family life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English