Mariah Larkin, LMFT
California · 30 years in practice
Mariah Larkin is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 30 years of experience in California.
License and registration
- LMFT, California
- 27311 · expires February 2026
- NPI
- 1457486037 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 30
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Mariah
Mariah Larkin is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 30 years of experience in California. She brings a warm, interactive manner to sessions and aims to help people manage anxiety, stress, and depression. She also supports clients working through relationship concerns and LGBTQ issues.
Mariah works with adults and offers both short-term and deeper, longer-term care. Mariah adapts her methods to each person’s needs. She draws on Existential ideas to help people find meaning and make clearer life choices.
Background and approach
She also uses client-centered work to create a respectful, empathetic space where clients can speak honestly. When grief, trauma, or recurring patterns are present, Mariah can use Jungian techniques and dream work to look at deeper roots. She also offers emotion-focused strategies for relationship patterns and feelings that keep repeating.
Hypnotherapy and mindfulness practices are part of her toolbox when appropriate. Her style is gently direct and supportive. She encourages truthfulness and helps people learn practical skills they can use between sessions.
Meditation and psycho-spiritual tools are sometimes taught for ongoing self-care. Mariah has experience with body image, life purpose, midlife questions, men’s issues, multicultural concerns, OCD and related compulsions, PTSD, seasonal mood shifts, social anxiety, and themes of self-love. She tailors work to the individual’s goals and life situation.
In a first session she focuses on understanding background and current concerns, then co-creates a plan with the person. Therapy proceeds step by step at a pace that feels manageable.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Mariah lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Depression
- Coaching
- Body image
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Approaches Mariah names
- Existential Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Hypnotherapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
Using Existential and Emotion-Focused Work Online
Existential Therapy helps people clarify values and face big life questions. It focuses on choices, meaning, and building a life that feels authentic. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) zeroes in on patterns in close relationships and the emotions that drive them, which can help when recurring relationship struggles cause distress. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening, acceptance, and building a trusting space so people can speak honestly and find their own solutions.Deciding which approach to use is a shared process. The therapist will talk about goals, preferences, and practical needs and then suggest ways to combine methods. Together they will try approaches and adjust the plan based on what helps most.
Online sessions offer flexibility for people with busy schedules or limited travel options. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is preferred, and live chat or text-based messaging can fit quick check-ins or moments when writing helps process feelings. These formats make it easier to maintain continuity of care and to work therapy into daily life.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does Mariah commonly address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship issues, and LGBT concerns, plus topics like body image, life purpose, OCD, PTSD, and social anxiety.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is warm and interactive, inviting honesty while teaching practical skills and spiritual practices when helpful.
What sort of clinical background does she have?
Mariah has 30 years of licensed experience and integrates a range of approaches to suit each person’s needs.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is a California LMFT and practices out of California.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What formats are available for online work?
Sessions can be done by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How are sessions paid for and what do they cost?
Cost varies with location and therapist details; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
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