About Todd
Todd Mangini is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 20 years of experience practicing in California. He uses a calm, straightforward style and aims to make therapy feel approachable.
Background and approach
Todd identifies as a gay man and uses he/him pronouns. He listens carefully and helps people talk through the issues that brought them in.
Todd helps people manage stress and anxiety and addresses relationship and family concerns. He also supports those coping with life changes, grief, addiction, sleep problems, anger, and low self-esteem.
He works with people facing caregiving stress, aging and geriatric issues, chronic illness or pain, and challenges tied to family of origin or communication patterns. Sessions focus on understanding what is happening now and finding practical steps to feel better.
Todd combines client-centered conversations with techniques that change thinking patterns and focus attention. He also draws from mindfulness practices and solution-focused strategies to set small, manageable goals.
Todd aims to create an open space where people can speak without judgment. He pays attention to both feelings and the body, helping people notice how thoughts and sensations connect.
This makes it easier to try new ways of coping and relating. He encourages realistic, steady progress rather than quick fixes.
Many clients work on career questions, intimacy concerns, codependency, forgiveness, or rebuilding self-love. Todd supports exploration of life purpose, midlife transitions, and issues tied to prejudice and men’s concerns.
How Todd’s approaches work in online therapy
Todd uses client-centered work to focus on what matters most to each person. This approach means sessions start with listening and understanding the client’s story, then shaping goals together. It is useful for people who want a supportive space to sort feelings and priorities.He also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. CBT helps when anxiety, depression, or unhelpful thinking patterns get in the way of daily life by teaching clearer ways to reframe thoughts and try different behaviors.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. Todd will talk with clients about goals and preferences and try methods that fit their needs. He adjusts plans over time based on what helps most, so the work stays practical and relevant.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video sessions are good for deeper conversations and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging suit quick check-ins, brief support between sessions, or people who prefer writing to speaking.
These options let people fit therapy into busy days, manage caregiving or work demands, and keep continuity of care across locations while working with licensed professionals.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English