About Philippa
Philippa Mariner is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with six years of professional experience based in California. She helps people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low mood, or big life changes. Philippa emphasizes practical steps and clear conversation so parents and busy adults can find breathing room in daily life.
Clients come for help with relationship concerns, challenges to self-esteem, motivation, and coping after loss or trauma. She also supports people facing issues such as addiction, anger, career transitions, and ADHD-related struggles.
Background and approach
Philippa listens for strengths and works with each person to build on what is already working. In sessions she focuses on straightforward tools and steady encouragement. Conversations often include problem-solving, goal-setting, and strategies to manage difficult moments.
She treats the person, not just the problem, and pays attention to how stress shows up in everyday routines. Philippa believes change takes courage and small steps add up. She aims to make therapy approachable so people can try new ways of coping without pressure.
Her style is warm, direct, and collaborative to help clients move toward clearer priorities. Background and approach include a focus on practical coping skills and steady support. Philippa draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide short-term goal work and longer personal growth.
She works in English and combines conversation with actionable strategies to help clients make changes that stick.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Philippa uses evidence-based techniques that focus on practical change and coping. One common approach she uses is cognitive-oriented work that helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try small experiments to test new ways of thinking. This approach can help with anxiety, low mood, and focus-related struggles.She also employs behavioral strategies that structure daily routines, build healthy habits, and break tasks into manageable steps. These tools are useful for stress, motivation, ADHD-related difficulties, and managing mood swings. Both approaches emphasize simple exercises you can practice between sessions to make progress.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Philippa works with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences, and she adjusts the plan as things change. Clients help shape the focus so therapy stays relevant and doable.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and comfort levels. Video calls let you see facial cues and have longer conversations, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat work well for brief check-ins or ongoing notes between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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