Marie Gauley, LMFT

Marie Gauley is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) in California with 28 years of clinical experience. She helps people who are facing depression, anxiety, trauma, grief, and major life transitions. Her work emphasizes respect and compassionate listening when emotions feel overwhelming. She uses straightforward talk therapy to find what matters most to each person. Sessions often focus on understanding attachment patterns, improving communication, and reducing intense reactions like panic or anger. Marie blends practical skills with reflective work to help people manage symptoms and make clearer choices. Her background includes long experience with older adults and with veterans, and she often supports people dealing with chronic illness, caregiver stress, and losses related to aging. She also addresses issues such as self-love, guilt and shame, abandonment, and life purpose. Therapy draws on several approaches that aim to be practical and accessible. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thinking and build new habits. Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills. Narrative and client-centered methods help people tell their story and feel heard. Marie describes her role as walking alongside someone rather than directing them. She combines listening with concrete strategies so clients can try new ways of coping between sessions. To begin, she asks questions about goals and day-to-day challenges and then tailors the work to each person.