Marie Gauley
Compassionate therapist blending skills and insight
LMFT California
- Experience
- 28 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Trauma and abuse, Grief
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Marie
Marie Gauley is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 28 years of experience working with people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, addictions, and challenges around relationships and intimacy.
Background and approach
She focuses on helping clients manage anger, build self-esteem, cope with life changes, and address career and parenting concerns. Her practice also attends to compassion fatigue, ADHD, and a broad set of related issues such as abandonment, attachment wounds, chronic illness and pain, and post-traumatic stress.
Drawing on a mix of cognitive behavioral strategies, client-centered listening, dialectical behavior tools, mindfulness practices, and narrative work, Marie emphasizes healing core emotional wounds and improving communication. She uses an empathic, faith-informed stance and brings particular attention to caregiver stress, aging and geriatric concerns, and issues faced by veterans and armed forces members.
Her aim is to help clients clarify life purpose, work through guilt and shame, and rebuild self-love through practical skills and reflective exploration. Based in California, Marie integrates practical coping techniques with deeper exploration of personal stories and attachment patterns.
Her practice supports those navigating panic attacks, financial stress, forgiveness, and impulsivity, guiding each person toward greater resilience and clearer next steps.
Approaches That Inform Online Care
Marie draws from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy to shape online work. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and learning practical coping strategies to reduce symptoms such as anxiety, panic, and mood difficulties. Client-centered methods prioritize empathic listening and collaboration, creating space for clients to explore feelings and values while guiding their own growth.She may also incorporate elements of Dialectical Behavior Therapy when emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills are needed; DBT offers concrete tools for managing strong emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness. Together these approaches can address trauma reactions, relationship struggles, compassion fatigue, and struggles with self-worth by combining skill work with reflective processing.
Choosing the right approach is collaborative: the therapist will work with each person to identify goals, preferences, and which methods fit best. That process often involves trying specific techniques, reviewing progress, and adjusting focus so therapy stays practical and personally meaningful.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, providing flexibility for varied schedules and needs. These formats make it easier to attend regularly, practice skills between meetings, and maintain continuity of care when life circumstances or mobility concerns make in-person visits difficult.
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Experience
28+ years
Licensed
California
Languages
English