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Mariah Larkin, LMFT

  • Experience30 years
  • LocationCalifornia
  • Focus areasStress and Anxiety, LGBT, and Relationship
  • Therapy approachesInternal Family Systems and Client-Centered Therapy
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About Mariah

Mariah Larkin is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 30 years of clinical experience in California. She combines a warm, interactive manner with depth-oriented and practical methods to help people facing anxiety, depression, stress, relationship difficulties, and questions about identity and life purpose.

Background and approach

Her practice emphasizes helping clients uncover authentic ways of living and integrating therapeutic tools that suit each person's needs. Her work draws on several therapeutic traditions, including Internal Family Systems, emotionally-focused and client-centered approaches, existential ideas, and hypnotherapy.

Mariah offers both longer-term exploration of unconscious material and shorter-term, skill-based interventions to address trauma, obsessions, compulsions, and mood concerns. She also brings attention to body image, multicultural perspectives, men’s issues, women’s issues, seasonal mood shifts, and other personal concerns.

Sessions are available in English and provided through a variety of online formats. Mariah invites honesty and curiosity in the therapeutic relationship and supports clients in developing tools they can use beyond sessions, whether the focus is healing from past wounds, clarifying purpose, or improving relationships.

Approaches for Online Healing and Deeper Understanding

Mariah integrates Internal Family Systems, Client-Centered Therapy, and Emotionally-Focused Therapy in her online practice to address a range of emotional and relational concerns. Internal Family Systems involves exploring internal parts or subpersonalities to reduce internal conflict and promote self-led clarity, which can be useful for anxiety, obsessions, and emotional reactivity. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a nonjudgmental, empathic presence that supports clients in discovering their own solutions and building self-trust, helpful for depression and life purpose work. Emotionally-Focused Therapy focuses on identifying and transforming emotional responses in relationships, which can help when patterns of connection or communication feel stuck.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Mariah works with each person to assess goals, preferences, and needs, and then tailors a mix of methods rather than prescribing a single path. This collaborative stance helps clients experiment with what feels most effective while staying aligned with their values and pace.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different lifestyles and schedules. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care from home or on the go, and they support ongoing work whether the focus is short-term tools or deeper, longer-term exploration.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does she commonly address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship challenges, LGBT concerns, and offers coaching. Additional areas include body image, life purpose, obsessions and compulsions, PTSD, seasonal affective disorder, self-love, social anxiety, and issues specific to men and women.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is warm and interactive; she blends depth-oriented exploration with practical interventions to match what a client needs from session to session.
How much clinical experience does she have?
Mariah brings three decades of licensed practice experience, which informs her ability to use multiple approaches for different concerns.
What credentials and location apply to this practice?
She is an LMFT licensed in California with license number CA LMFT 27311 and provides services from that state.
Does she offer services in languages other than English or to international clients?
Services are offered in English only, and international clients are not currently accepted.
Which session formats are available?
Sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different preferences.
How are costs and subscriptions handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability, and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin working together?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule an appointment according to the therapist's availability.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Stress, AnxietyLGBTRelationship issuesDepressionCoaching

Additional focus areas

Body imageLife purposeMen's issuesMidlife crisisMulticultural concernsObsessions, compulsions, and OCDPost-traumatic stressSeasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)Self-loveSocial anxiety and phobiaWomen's issues

Therapeutic approaches

Client-Centered TherapyEmotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)Existential TherapyHypnotherapyJungian TherapyMindfulness TherapyPsychodynamic TherapySomatic TherapyInternal Family Systems

Experience

30+ years

Licensed

California

Languages

English