Anke Kalaiah, LMFT

Anke Kalaiah is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California with 15 years of clinical experience. She works with adults who are struggling with anxiety, depression, anger, relationship and family conflict, parenting strain, trauma and addiction. Sessions are offered in English and German and she draws on approaches that help with practical skills and coping.

Anke uses a client-centered way of working that treats people as the experts on their own lives. She helps people identify strengths and small steps they can take. She also uses solution-focused strategies to set clear goals and build plans that fit day-to-day life.

For thinking and behavior patterns she brings Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. Those tools are used when people want concrete techniques to reduce reactivity and handle strong feelings more effectively.

Her background includes a bachelor degree in German and social psychology from Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany, and a master degree in counseling psychology from Santa Clara University in California. She received her California LMFT license in 2014 and has worked across varied clinical settings.

As an immigrant herself, she has experience with immigration and multicultural family issues and understands the stress of cultural adjustment. People often seek her help for family of origin problems, blended family challenges, grief, caregiving stress, and intimacy or sexual culture concerns.

To begin, readers are invited to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session to review goals and next steps.

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