Dr. Marva Bourne , LMFT

Dr. Marva Bourne is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), with nine years of professional experience providing therapeutic care in California. LMFT stands for Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and indicates specialized training in working with relationships, families, and individual clients. She works with individuals, couples, and families addressing a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, addictions, and intimacy-related challenges.

Her practice also engages with issues that often accompany life transitions - parenting and blended family dynamics, adoption and foster care, caregiver stress, career concerns, and questions of life purpose. Dr. Bourne supports clients facing obsessive or compulsive patterns, panic attacks, social anxiety, and difficulties with eating, sleeping, and attention. She attends to the emotional consequences of infidelity, guilt and shame, isolation and loneliness, and other relational wounds.

Dr. Bourne draws from several clinical approaches to tailor care to each person or family, integrating attachment-focused work, client-centered principles, cognitive behavioral strategies, emotionally focused methods, and interventions informed by relationship research. Her style is collaborative and goal-oriented, helping clients build practical skills, deepen emotional understanding, and navigate meaningful change over time.

Therapeutic Approaches for Online Sessions

Dr. Marva Bourne integrates Attachment-Based Therapy to explore how early relationships shape current patterns of relating and emotional responses, helping clients address attachment issues, adoption and foster care concerns, and challenges within close relationships.

She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and to build practical skills for managing anxiety, depression, panic, and compulsive patterns. CBT offers structured strategies for problem solving and symptom relief.

Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) is applied in work with couples and individuals to deepen emotional awareness and reshape how partners or family members respond to each other, supporting healing after infidelity, prolonged conflict, or emotional disconnection.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Dr. Bourne and each client or family work together to choose methods that fit goals, preferences, and circumstances, with adjustments made over time as needs evolve.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions can take place by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging - which makes it easier to schedule around work, caregiving, and other responsibilities. For many people, remote sessions increase access to consistent care while preserving the same therapeutic principles that licensed professionals use in face-to-face work.