About Magdalena
Magdalena Orr is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, depression, and major life changes. She speaks English and Polish and brings twenty years of experience to her sessions. Magdalena aims to create a calm, compassionate space where clients can talk about what matters most to them.
She uses a mix of practical approaches to meet each person's needs. Sessions often include body-focused awareness from somatic work, thought-focused tools from cognitive behavioral techniques, and values-based exercises from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.
Background and approach
Conversations are guided by the client's goals and paced to what feels manageable. Magdalena draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how relationships and early experiences affect present patterns. She also practices client-centered listening to help people feel heard and seen.
Together these methods can support people working through trauma, intimacy-related struggles, parenting challenges, and burnout concerns such as compassion fatigue. Her background includes two decades of clinical practice in California as an LMFT - Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, California license number 49661. Magdalena has supported people coping with chronic illness, codependency, abandonment, and complex grief over the years.
She welcomes international clients and offers sessions in English and Polish. To begin, clients choose an online matching route and schedule sessions that fit their lives. Fees vary with location and subscription plans can be canceled at any time.
Magdalena aims to work side by side with each person as they try new ways of being and making everyday choices that feel more life-giving.
How Magdalena’s approaches translate to online work
Magdalena uses somatic-informed methods, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and attachment-based ideas in online sessions. Somatic work brings attention to bodily signals and gentle body awareness to help people notice how stress shows up physically and learn ways to calm it. ACT focuses on values and small, practical steps so people can move toward what matters even when hard feelings appear. Attachment-based work looks at relationship patterns and helps clients understand how past connections influence current reactions and choices.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. She works collaboratively to choose methods that fit each person’s goals, comfort level, and life situation. That means experimenting together and adjusting tools over time rather than using a fixed formula.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different schedules and needs. These options make it easier to keep continuity between sessions, practice tools between meetings, and access support from home or while traveling. Magdalena aims to make therapy workable for busy lives while keeping focus on what helps each person move forward.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Polish