Sometimes life can leave us feeling uncertain about ourselves, our relationships, or the journey ahead. I hold space for those who are:

‣ Managing anxiety and ongoing stress
‣ Addressing self-esteem & confidence concerns
‣ Navigating challenging life transitions
‣ Exploring personal identity
‣ Seeking to heal from unhealthy generational patterns and attachment wounds
‣ Working through relationship and/or interpersonal challenges
‣ Facing complex family dynamics

Together, we’ll create a space where you can explore the thoughts, feelings, and patterns that shape your life. Whether you’re facing stress, anxiety, navigating change, seeking deeper self-understanding, or working through complex family and relationship dynamics, therapy offers an opportunity to uncover what truly matters to you. We’ll approach your journey with curiosity and compassion, helping you heal old patterns and pain, strengthen your sense of self, and move toward greater clarity, connection, and balance.

When we feel supported, even the most difficult parts of life become possible to face and in those moments, growth often blooms. We often carry pain, patterns, and survival strategies that once served us but may no longer align with the life we want today. I support you in peeling back the layers of expectation, people-pleasing, long-kept pain, and self-doubt so you can uncover and reconnect with your authentic self. Therapy is a place patterns and old strategies can be gently explored, honoring how they once protected you and releasing them when they no longer serve you.

I work from a person-centered, strengths-based approach, meaning we will take each step in therapy at a pace that feels comfortable for you. You are the expert in your life and your experiences. I will follow your lead and walk alongside you with curiosity and compassion while providing consistent support and guidance as we navigate the ins-and-outs of your world, address your needs, and uncover your strengths — moving toward change that feels right for you.

Therapy with me is both grounding and dynamic. We will hold space for life’s heaviness and invite lightness and laughter that remind us of our continued resilience. My hope is that through our work, you feel more connected to yourself — grounded, understood, and empowered to heal and grow in your own way.

My own path to becoming a therapist began through personal experience. After earning my bachelor’s degree in Child Development: Pre-Credential from Sacramento State University, I went through a period of personal challenge that led me to therapy. The transformative impact of that process helped me uncover a passion to support others in their healing journeys.

I went on to earn my master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Touro University Worldwide. Since then, I’ve had the privilege of working with individuals, couples, and families in a variety of settings. My clinical experience includes trauma recovery, parenting support, couples and co-parent counseling, play therapy, family conflict, grief and loss, anxiety, depression, and reunification work.

I consider the many aspects of your life, from relationships and values to culture and environment. I place particular emphasis on attachment theory and family systems, exploring how family functionings, childhood experiences, and early relationships shape who we are in the present, how we show up, and how we connect with others.

Therapy is not one-size-fits-all. I tailor my work to meet your unique needs and goals. My approach is integrative and strengths-based, pulling from a variety of therapeutic methods depending on what authentically connects for you most:

‣ Family Systems
‣ Attachment Theory
‣ Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
‣ Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
‣ Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)

• Adolescent: 13-17
• Young Adult: 18-25
• Adults: 26-65

• Individuals
• Couples
• Families

• African-American / Black
• Afro-Latine
• Asian
• Asian-American
• Biracial
• Bisexual
• Chicano/a/x
• Children of Immigrants
• Children of Parents with Addiction
• Couples/Married/Romantic/Sexual Relationships
• Highly Sensitive People
• Latina/o/x
• Men
• Migrants / Immigrants / Refugees
• Multiracial
• Pacific Islander / Native Hawaiian / Polynesian
• Therapists
• White / European Descent
• Women

• ADHD
• Aging
• Anxiety
• Blended Families, Step-Parenting
• Body Image
• Burnout
• Codependency
• Complex Trauma, Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD)
• Depression
• Family Counseling
• Intergenerational Trauma and Healing
• Multigenerational Family Systems
• Parenting
• Self-Esteem/Worth/Compassion
• Self-Harm
• Social Anxiety
• Stress
• Stages of Life

• Attachment Theory
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
• Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
• Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
• Family Systems
• Gottman Couples Therapy
• Internal Family Systems (IFS)
• Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
• Relational Therapy
• Trauma-Informed

• Cisgender
• Latina/o/x
• Multiracial
• Step-Parent
• Woman

• Credit Card

Individual - $110; Couples & Families - $125

$75 - $125 - Please email for current sliding scale availability

• Evenings
• Weekdays
• Weekends

Please email me to set up a free 20 minute consultation call.

Per weekend scheduling, I am available between the hours of 7am to 2pm on Sundays.

Marissa Baumann, LMFT #106722

11/19/2025