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Malaena Waldman

Therapist
8 years of experience
  • Virtual
  • Anxiety, Family issues, Relationship issues, Women's issues, Identity issues
  • Individual therapy, Family therapy

Great to meet you!

With a Masters in Holistic Counseling Psychology as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT #106892) and with a Masters Certification in Intuitive and Energy Medicine (MIM) I offer an integrative approach that blends evidence based therapeutic modalities with psycho-spiritual practices to support healing, growth, and transformation for personal and spiritual development.

My approach to therapy

  • shadow work, core wounding, the inner child, releasing trauma, healing from the past, working with and regulating the nervous system
  • family dynamics and relationship patterning’s
  • relationships and communication
  • life transitions / making changes in your life
  • Releasing/removing old patterns keeping you stuck, limiting beliefs, and blockages to bring your system back into balance
  • anxiety
  • grief and loss
  • women’s issues
  • burnout/depletion
  • body image, low self-esteem, self-love, self-compassion, self-care, radical self-acceptance
  • the inner critic, negative emotional narratives, limiting beliefs, old lenses of perception, releasing traumas, behaviors stored in the body
  • reclaiming, integrating, embodying your authentic self and living a life that is the expression and reflection of who you truly are
  • building inner guidance, intuition, deeper connection with self and others, deepening self-awareness, spiritual growth
  • soul searching, finding meaning, aligning your path, and living your purpose
  • How to take what is already showing up for you and access the larger teaching and wisdom within
  • Support for empaths, the highly sensitive, and healers

What you can expect from me

My approach blends clinical experience with spiritual sensitivity, creating space where your full self is welcome: the messy, the mystical, and everything in between. It’s not about fighting what’s broken, it’s about remembering what’s whole. I believe healing is not a fixing- it is a remembering of who you are and who you came here to be. I help clients through compassionate care, authentic connection, and holding sacred space to transform fragmentation into integration, hurt into healing, wounds into wisdom, pain into power, fear into faith, ego into essence, shadow into light, and limitations into infinite possibilities. It’s time to grow, build resilience, process emotional wounds, and create meaningful, lasting change.

About me

  • I identify as
    Caucasian, Woman
  • My style is
    Affirming, Warm, Holistic

Qualification and insurance

  • Years of experience
    8 years of experience
  • Training
    MA (Master of Arts) at California Institute of Integral Studies
  • License type
    LMFT (Licensed Marriage/Family Therapist) (California)
  • Licensed in
  • Insurance accepted
    Aetna, Anthem Blue Cross, Carelon Behavioral Health, Cigna

Cost

Care details

  • Top specialties
    Anxiety, Family issues, Relationship issues, Women's issues, Identity issues
  • More specialties
    Eating disorders, Stress management, Grief or loss, Trauma, PTSD
  • Therapy methods
    Gestalt, Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Family Focused Therapy (FFT), Somatic, Positive Psychology, Transpersonal, Attachment Based, Narrative Therapy, Attachment Based Family Therapy, Humanistic, Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT), Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT), Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS), Relational
  • Care types
    Individual therapy, Family therapy
  • Ages served
    Adolescents, Adults
  • Languages
    English