Therapy offers a space to explore your inner world
with support, compassion, and curiosity.
You don’t have to do it alone.
Call 510-877-0710 for a free 20-minute consultation.
Let’s work together to help you feel more at home
in yourself—and in your life.
Mariah Howard
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist # 154556
Collage art by Donna Morello
SERVICES
INDIVIDUAL THERAPY
In therapy, we can explore all areas of your life—your relationships, your work, and your relationship with yourself. The therapy hour is your time: a space for reflection, honesty, and growth. I offer deep listening, thoughtful questions, compassionate presence, and gentle insight. Over time, you’ll begin to nurture and strengthen your own inner voice of compassion.
The first step is reaching out. Let’s begin the exploration together.
COUPLES THERAPY
Challenges in primary relationships can be deeply painful—our own struggles often echo and intensify those of our partner. In my work with couples, I focus on identifying and shifting the patterns that block connection and intimacy. Together, we build communication skills that help each person feel heard, seen, and valued. Whether you're navigating calm or conflict, I offer support to each of you—and to the relationship you’re building together.
CHILDREN AND TEENS
Young people can thrive with the right support, and therapy can offer them a safe place to grow. A positive experience early in life can empower them to seek help and stay connected to their emotional well-being for years to come.
Drawing on my Expressive Arts training and my own experience as a parent, I create a welcoming space where children and adolescents can explore challenges, express themselves,
and let their unique light shine even brighter.
Mariah Howard
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist # 154556
ABOUT ME
I’ve always been drawn to real, meaningful conversations. Whether it was helping resolve a playground argument in grade school or talking with my grandparents about the meaning of life, I’ve wanted to listen—really listen—and connect with people around what matters most to them.
Before becoming a therapist, I spent years working as a visual facilitator and consultant. Eventually, I followed a deeper calling and made the leap into this work. I consider it a profound privilege to sit in the therapist’s chair, and I strive every day to earn that place in the lives of my clients. I do my own inner work and do my best to live in alignment with my values.
I often think of myself as a kind of emotional firefighter—not afraid to walk into the heat of inner conflict or intense feeling, where others might understandably turn away. This work brings deep meaning and purpose to my life, and I’m truly grateful to do it.
Mariah HowardLicensed Marriage and Family Therapist # 154556
YOUR STORY
As a therapist, my job is to listen.
I listen to your story; the heroic tale of how you became you,
told by the only person who can truly tell it.
As I listen, I offer questions, reflections, and ideas about how you can heal from the past and reach the goals you want for your future.
You belong here in the world, and I want to hear your story.
Mariah Howard
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist # 154556
AREAS OF FOCUS
DEPRESSION
ANXIETY
RELATIONSHIP ISSUES
WORK TRANSITIONS
PARENTING
GRIEF & LOSS
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage.
Perhaps everything that frightens us is,
in its deepest essence,
something helpless that wants our love.”
-Rainer Maria Rilke
APPROACHES TO HEALING
MEDITATION & VISUALIZATION
Developing or deepening a meditation practice is a powerful and life changing resource available to us all. I have experience with a variety of evidence-based practices that are proven ways to work with depression and anxiety. We can create a tailor-made practice
that works for you and supports
your therapy.
INTERNAL FAMILY SYSTEMS
IFS, also known as “Parts Work,” is a creative process that helps you connect
with parts of you that learned to cope, protect, and persevere—often in ways that were necessary at the time
but may now feel limiting.
With compassion and curiosity, you’ll begin to understand these parts, release old patterns, and create space to feel grounded, whole, and more fully yourself—from the inside out.
LIFE MAPPING
A unique aspect of my work is the creation of one-of-a-kind maps that depict our work in therapy. For example, a visualization of your goals or the habits can help you keep them in mind and on track. For couples, it could be depiction of the Family Agreements we develop during sessions. Most of us are visual learners and these maps support your process of healing and change.
EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY
Through art making, ANYONE can express essential parts of themselves. Even those of us who "can't draw a stick figure" can access their creativity. I especially enjoy supporting people who don't believe they can tap into the artistic parts of themselves. Creativity is a birthright for all of us...come find out!
“If I am not for myself,
who will be for me?
If I am only for myself,
what am I?
And if not now, when?”
-Hillel the Elder
CONTACT ME
Get in touch by calling 510-877-0710.
I look forward to hearing from you!
Mariah Howard
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist # 154556