Therapy That Helps You Understand Yourself—and Make Meaningful Changes
Individual therapy for adults and creative professionals navigating anxiety, emotional overwhelm, trauma-related patterns, relationships, and perfectionism.
Virtual therapy throughout California
Does Any of This Sound Familiar?
You don't need to have everything figured out before starting therapy.
Maybe you've noticed certain patterns that keep repeating, or you've reached a point where the ways you've been coping no longer seem to be working.
Some of the experiences we can explore together include:
Anxiety and Overthinking
Constantly anticipating what might go wrong, replaying conversations, or struggling to make decisions because you're worried about making the wrong one.
Emotional Overwhelm
Feeling consumed by your emotions, struggling to express what you're feeling, or shutting down when situations become difficult.
Relationship Difficulties
Finding yourself caught in recurring conflicts, people-pleasing, resentment, or difficulty expressing your needs and boundaries.
Trauma-Related Patterns
Noticing how earlier experiences continue to influence your emotional responses, relationships, or sense of safety.
Perfectionism and Self-Criticism
Feeling that your accomplishments are never enough, holding yourself to impossible standards, or measuring your worth by what you achieve.
Creative Pressure and Burnout
Feeling disconnected from your creativity, struggling with rejection or comparison, or experiencing the pressure to constantly produce something meaningful.
Therapy offers an opportunity to understand these experiences more deeply while developing new ways of responding to them.
Therapy for Adults
Sometimes the ways we've learned to cope with life become the very patterns that keep us feeling stuck.
You might avoid conflict to preserve relationships, criticize yourself to stay motivated, or try to control uncertain situations because uncertainty feels overwhelming.
These responses often develop for understandable reasons. But something that once helped you manage difficult experiences might no longer serve the life you're trying to build.
In our work together, we can explore these patterns, understand how they developed, and practice responding differently.
My work includes supporting adults navigating anxiety, depression, emotional overwhelm, relationship difficulties, trauma-related experiences, and major life transitions.
Therapy isn't about becoming someone else. It's about developing a better understanding of yourself and creating more freedom in how you respond to life.
Therapy for Creatives and High Achievers
When your work is personal, the challenges that come with it can feel personal, too.
A rejected audition, unfinished project, creative block, or difficult piece of feedback can begin to feel like a reflection of your worth rather than an experience you're having.
For some people, creativity becomes intertwined with perfectionism, shame, comparison, or the belief that they always need to be accomplishing something to feel good about themselves.
I work with actors, writers, musicians, artists, and other creative professionals navigating the emotional challenges that can come with pursuing meaningful work.
Together, we can explore how your identity, expectations, and emotional patterns influence your creative life—and develop ways of engaging with your work that leave more room for flexibility, authenticity, and well-being.
My Approach to Therapy
I believe that understanding why we do something is important, but understanding alone doesn't always create change.
My approach is collaborative and combines curiosity, practical skills, and attention to the experiences that have shaped how you relate to yourself and others.
I draw from several therapeutic approaches, including:
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Building skills to manage intense emotions, tolerate distress, navigate relationships, and respond more effectively to difficult situations.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Exploring how thoughts, behaviors, and emotional responses influence one another, and identifying opportunities to challenge unhelpful patterns.
Trauma-Informed Care
Recognizing how difficult experiences can shape our responses and working at a pace that prioritizes safety, choice, and collaboration.
Mindfulness
Developing greater awareness of your internal experiences so you can respond to them with intention rather than automatically reacting.
Our work is individualized. We'll explore what is happening in your life, identify what matters to you, and develop practical ways to support meaningful change.
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Meet Marco Viteri, LMFT
I'm a California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who works with adults navigating emotional difficulties, challenging life experiences, and patterns that can interfere with their well-being.
My clinical experience includes work in inpatient, residential, and outpatient mental health settings, supporting individuals navigating trauma, eating disorders, emotional dysregulation, mood difficulties, and complex relationship patterns.
I approach therapy with curiosity, compassion, and a belief that the ways we respond to life often make more sense when we understand the experiences behind them.
My goal is to create a collaborative space where you can explore difficult experiences, better understand yourself, and develop skills that support the changes you want to make.
California LMFT #121920
Fees and Getting Started
Individual Therapy — $180 per Session
I offer 50-minute individual therapy sessions through my independent private practice at a fee of $180 per session.
My independent private practice operates on a private-pay basis. I also provide services through separate third-party arrangements, which may have different fees, insurance options, and policies.
Free 20-Minute Phone Consultation
Before beginning therapy, I offer a free 20-minute phone consultation.
This gives us an opportunity to discuss what brings you to therapy, answer questions about my approach, and explore whether working together may be a good fit.
Virtual Therapy Throughout California
Individual therapy sessions are offered virtually to clients physically located in California.
Interested in getting started?
Reach out to request your free consultation.
You Don't Need to Have the Right Words to Begin
Sometimes knowing that something isn't working is enough of a place to start.
Whether you're navigating an immediate challenge or patterns that have followed you for years, therapy can be an opportunity to explore what's happening and what you'd like to change.
If you're considering therapy, I'd welcome the opportunity to talk about what you're looking for.
Free 15-minute consultation | Individual therapy: $180 per session
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