Therapy should feel safe enough for you to be yourself.
Marliz brings a collaborative, compassionate, culturally responsive approach to therapy, with special attention to relationships, attachment, family dynamics, and trauma.
Warm, open-minded, and direct.
Marliz is a bilingual and bicultural Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. She works with individuals, couples, and families and understands that relationships, culture, family history, and life experiences can all shape the way people connect with themselves and with others.
Her goal is to create a space where clients feel heard, accepted, and comfortable enough to explore what is not working—without having to know exactly where to start.
Languages: English and Spanish
Practice: Virtual therapy for clients located in Texas
Her approach
Marliz’s work is grounded in attachment-based therapy and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), with an emphasis on understanding the emotional patterns that shape connection and disconnection.
For clients working through trauma or painful past experiences, she can also integrate EMDR in a structured, individualized way.
- Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
- EMDR
- Attachment-based therapy
- Family systems approaches
- Narrative and solution-focused techniques
- Motivational and cognitive-behavioral strategies
Who she works with
Marliz works with adolescents, adults, and seniors, providing therapy for individuals, couples, and families navigating challenges in their relationships, emotional health, and everyday lives.
Her approach is affirming and culturally responsive, creating a space where clients from a wide range of backgrounds can feel understood, supported, and comfortable being themselves.
- Relationship and communication concerns
- Family dynamics and conflict
- Trauma and difficult past experiences
- Anxiety, depression, and ADHD
- Life transitions and identity
- LGBTQIA+ affirming care