Marilyn Brodersen

Marilyn Brodersen is a California-based Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 30 years of clinical experience. She works with adults who feel stuck after a big change, facing stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship strain, trauma, and grief. Marilyn also focuses on life purpose, midlife shifts, attachment and abandonment concerns, and issues like body image and caregiver stress.

She uses a client-centered approach that centers the person's own goals and experience. Sessions are conversational and practical. Marilyn listens for patterns that keep people stuck and helps them try small changes to test what works.

Her background spans decades of helping adults through transitions at work and in personal life. She draws on long experience dealing with mood challenges, impulsivity, and feelings of isolation. That experience informs how she notices repeating themes and suggests ways to move forward.

In sessions she often addresses guilt, shame, and control issues alongside practical problems such as money worries or chronic health stress. She also supports people wrestling with sexuality and women’s issues, helping them sort out values and next steps.

Marilyn asks clear questions and offers straightforward feedback. She helps people name what matters and set manageable steps. To begin, the site’s matching steps guide you to a first session where you'll outline current concerns and discuss what to try next.

How Marilyn's approach translates online

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person's perspective, listening carefully to what matters most and following the client's lead. In practice this means sessions are conversational, aimed at helping someone name priorities and try small changes for real life problems like stress, anxiety, relationship strain, or grief.

Because her work emphasizes the client's goals and experience, figuring out the right approach is collaborative. Marilyn will work with the person to review needs, goals, and preferences and suggest ways to adjust the sessions over time so they fit evolving concerns and practical constraints.

Session format details were not specified in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule by removing travel time, allowing shorter check-ins when needed, and making it simpler to schedule sessions around work or caregiving. It can also allow someone to continue regular meetings during life transitions without changing therapists. Licensed professionals can adapt conversational, client-centered methods to these practical formats to keep focus on goals and next steps.