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 individuals, couples, and families facing stress, anxiety, relationship and family conflict, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, addictions, grief, mood disorders, and other life transitions. Fluent in English and German, she brings a multicultural perspective shaped by her own experience as an immigrant and by long-standing work with clients from diverse cultural backgrounds.

Anke earned a bachelor degree in German and Socialpsychology from Ruhr University Bochum in Germany and completed a master degree in Counseling Psychology at Santa Clara University in 2011. She received her LMFT license in 2014 and has practiced across a variety of clinical settings and age groups. In recent years her clinical focus has included trauma and abuse, domestic and sexual violence, family and marital conflict, divorce and coparenting, blended family dynamics, and parenting difficulties.

Her therapeutic stance is client-centered and strengths-based, drawing on an eclectic mix of methods to equip clients with practical skills. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to explore links among thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach skills in mindfulness, distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness, and emotion regulation. Anke collaborates with each person to tailor a treatment plan that aligns with their goals and resources, and she welcomes inquiries from those seeking support for complex life challenges.