Amber Marinoff, LMFT
Amber accepts:
Kaiser
Moda
PacificSource
OHP Trillium
BCBS
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Adults (18+)
The past few years have been fast moving, bringing many unexpected life changes for most of us. You may feel isolated, like no one understands what you’ve been through and/or are currently going through. You may worry about your future and as though you’re not doing enough with your life or you may feel “stuck”. You may even fear that “nothing will get better”.
But you are not alone. It’s challenging being a human being right now. And I, as a fellow human, completely understand this.
My name is Amber N. Marinoff (she/her) and I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT). As a LMFT, I have been trained in family systems. Consequently, I view individuals’ struggles as part of a larger whole. I love working with individual adults, and you may find that my ability to offer unconditional positive regard to all my clients, helps to establish the trust that is vital to healing. People would say that I’m an empathic and compassionate advocate who believes if trauma can be passed through generations, so can healing.
I love assisting people with remembering who they really are by reconnecting back to true self through grounding back to the present moments of life. What relief you feel when you begin to notice the consistent calm and clarity about your beliefs, thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
You’ll find that you quickly feel at ease as we get to work, and create more peace, calm, and clarity within yourself.
In our sessions together, you will start to feel empowered when you realize that you have always had the power within yourself to make positive changes.
You’ll learn how to identify negative belief systems originating from childhood cultural conditioning, other peoples’ opinions, and the resulting inaccurate conclusions that our child selves internalized.
You’ll be relieved when you begin to remember how to make space around your thoughts, and feelings, slowly realizing that your thoughts and feelings are not you, and you are not them.
Amber Specializes in the Following:
Anxiety/Panic
Depression
Trauma
Life Transitions
Grief/Loss
Parenting Adult Children
Highly Sensitive People/Neurodivergence
My Experience
My 22 years of experience helps me understand how to work with hundreds of different patterns and challenges. We will use methods that work for YOU, not a cookie cutter approach to therapy. My training in CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), TFCBT (Trauma Focused Behavioral Therapy), as well as the somatic therapies of EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing), EFT Tapping (Emotional Freedom Technique), with an emphasis on internal parts work and reparenting self, give you research based tools that really work. I have very strong social justice focus. I simultaneously am aware of the cultural conditioning and resulting privileges I have, while advocating and working toward making sure that everyone regardless of culture, color, gender, gender expression, or sexual orientation experiences equality, dignity, and respect in all areas of their lives. Black Lives Matter, Love is Love, and Trans Rights are Human Rights.
How long does therapy take?
Everyone is different and as a result each therapy experience is unique. It is impossible to give any sort of timeline for the therapy process.
People that I have worked with, report that they have:
Increased their ability to stay present and as a result, increased their emotional regulation, calm, clarity, and self-acceptance. Feeling “unstuck” about life, and confident about their choices.
They report decreased anxiety/panic/depression that was impairing their overall functioning within their lives.
Increased ability to set healthy, appropriate boundaries within their interpersonal relationships resulting in helping them feel increased safety and confidence about themselves.
Quotes to Consider:
“Be Here Now.” — Ram Dass
“What you resist, persists.” — Eckhart Tolle
“When we resist change, it’s called suffering.” — Pema Chödrön
“If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice, have recognition for difference without attaching difference to privilege.” — bell hooks
“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.” — Dalai Lama
