Malisa Komolthiti, LMFT

Malisa Komolthiti is a licensed marriage and family therapist who uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy as a core approach. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, relationship concerns, and LGBT issues. She works in English and Thai and practices from Indiana. She prefers a straightforward style in sessions. Conversations are tailored to each person and their situation. She listens for patterns in thinking and behavior and helps clients find practical ways to change those patterns. Malisa also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and client-centered techniques to support values-based choices. These approaches help people notice difficult thoughts and then take small steps toward what matters to them. Mindfulness tools are offered to manage emotional intensity and ground attention in the present moment. Her experience includes three years of clinical work in Indiana. As an LMFT she brings that background into session planning while adapting to each person's pace. She aims to make therapy feel collaborative rather than prescriptive. Sessions can address specific concerns like abandonment, attachment, body image, communication problems, chronic illness or disability, and issues tied to adoption or foster care. Work may include short skills practice, exploring relationship patterns, and planning behavioral experiments. The goal is to build skills people can use between sessions.

CBT, ACT, and client-centered work online

Malisa commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thinking and change behaviors that keep problems going. CBT is practical and often includes specific skill practice and short experiments to test new ways of coping.

She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take committed action even when uncomfortable thoughts or feelings appear. Client-centered methods are woven in so sessions feel collaborative and grounded in the person’s priorities.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She will talk with clients about goals, try methods that fit their needs, and adjust the plan as progress and preferences become clear. That collaborative process helps identify what methods feel most helpful.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful when visual cues matter, phone calls work well with limited bandwidth, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflections between meetings. These options let people fit sessions around work, caregiving, or other commitments while keeping continuity with their therapist.