About Mayra
Mayra Garcia is a licensed marriage and family therapist based in California. She takes a down-to-earth approach and aims to make therapy feel supportive and approachable.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and structured, with warmth and a light touch of humor when it fits. She meets people where they are and helps them gently challenge patterns that no longer serve them.
Mayra focuses on stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, depression, and family-related concerns. She also works with issues such as abandonment, adoption and foster care, attachment issues, communication problems, and caregiving stress.
In the room she uses practical steps to make change understandable and manageable. Conversations are focused on small, realistic goals.
Mayra balances respect and honesty while keeping sessions grounded and human. She speaks English and Spanish and brings three years of clinical experience to her practice.
Her credential is LMFT, which stands for Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and she practices in California. Mayra helps clients map out clear next steps and steady progress.
She encourages people to try things between sessions and then talk through what worked. The overall aim is clearer thinking, steadier emotions, and better day-to-day functioning.
Evidence-based approaches for online care
Mayra uses straightforward, evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and clearer thinking. One common approach she uses helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and test them against real life so feelings shift and behaviors follow. This approach works well for anxiety, low mood, and stress-related worries.Another frequent focus is on attachment and relationship patterns. Sessions look at how early connections affect current behavior and communication, then build new ways of relating and setting boundaries. This helps with self-esteem, communication problems, codependency, and issues tied to abandonment or adoption histories.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Mayra collaborates with each person to pick techniques that match their goals and preferences, and she adjusts the plan as progress is made. The process is shared - therapist and client decide together what to try next.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into daily life. Video lets people read expressions and use visual tools, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or chat supports shorter check-ins and reflection between sessions. These options make it simpler to keep regular contact and maintain momentum from week to week.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish