About Marquita
Marquita Dempsey is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in California with over 10 years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical help for people dealing with depression, anxiety, relationship concerns, grief, and ADHD. Marquita aims to make the first step toward help feel doable and direct.
She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk through tough feelings. Sessions often focus on building motivation, improving self-esteem, and finding concrete ways to cope with stress.
Background and approach
She listens for what matters most and works with each person to set reachable goals. Her background includes a decade of helping people manage trauma and abuse impacts, anger, sleep problems, and intimacy-related worries. Marquita also supports those facing career shifts and parenting stress, and she offers coaching-style guidance when clients want focused skill building.
Infidelity and relationship ruptures are among the topics she addresses. In-session methods are straightforward and collaborative. She uses client-centered conversation to understand priorities, cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking and habits, and solution-focused steps to try small experiments between visits.
The tone is practical and respectful. Marquita emphasizes steady progress over quick fixes. She helps people develop routines, communication skills, and coping tools they can use daily.
If someone wants clear steps and empathetic support, she helps them plan the next move.
How Marquita’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's concerns without judgment. It helps people clarify what matters to them and decide the next steps at their own pace.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It helps people try out new ways of thinking and small behavior changes to reduce symptoms like low mood, anxiety, or sleep disruption.
Solution-focused therapy zeroes in on what the client wants to change and on quick, practical steps to move toward that goal. It’s useful when someone wants targeted progress and short-term plans.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to concerns, discuss options, and together decide which methods fit the client's goals and preferences. Adjustments happen over time based on what works.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for full conversations and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins, and messaging lets people send updates or ask questions between visits. These formats make therapy easier to fit around work, caregiving, and busy schedules by offering flexibility and frequent ways to connect.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Depression
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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