Online psychotherapy for adults in California
Therapy can be more than symptom relief. It can be a place to meet the patterns, dreams, wounds, and unlived parts of you—and to return to your life with greater choice.
Virtual sessions · California
The threshold is not an escape. It is an encounter.
Meet Marco
I’m Marco Iglesias, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and founder of The Inner Canvas.
For more than a decade, I worked in the nonprofit sector alongside individuals and families impacted by adversity, trauma, and marginalization. That experience taught me that healing begins not with reducing a person to a diagnosis, but with meeting them with curiosity, dignity, and genuine human presence.
My approach is relational, trauma-informed, and depth-oriented. I draw from EMDR-informed tools, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Jungian psychology, mindfulness, and creative approaches to healing—while remaining responsive to the person in front of me. The client does not come to fit my model; my models help me meet the client.
I am also a lifelong lover of music, poetry, art, dreams, and imagination. These are not separate from my work as a therapist; they shape how I listen for meaning, symbolism, and the parts of life that cannot always be explained in ordinary language. I believe therapy can be serious without becoming sterile, and profound without losing warmth, humor, or humanity.
I don’t believe people are problems waiting to be fixed. I believe there is meaning in what we carry—and possibility in what has yet to emerge.
Credentials & orientation
California LMFT #139260 · Trauma-informed · Jungian and IFS-informed · EMDR-informed
Ways we can work
For the vigilance, self-doubt, codependent patterns, and identity shifts that make it difficult to feel fully present in your own life.
Boundaries, attachment patterns, self-trust, emotional regulation, transitions, and the difference between caring for others and disappearing into them.
For experiences that continue to live in the body—even when the thinking mind understands that the danger has passed.
Traumatic memories, protective responses, shame, grief, somatic signals, and new experiences of safety and agency.
For artists, seekers, and anyone sensing that a more truthful life is trying to emerge through image, symbol, or creative longing.
Dream images, creative blocks, spirituality, the shadow, life purpose, imagination, and the voice beneath habitual self-criticism.
The process
We begin with what is most alive, painful, confusing, or persistent right now. You do not need a polished explanation.
We notice recurring patterns and the emotional, bodily, relational, and symbolic language carrying them.
Insight becomes meaningful when it creates more freedom: a boundary, a pause, a fuller voice, or a different relationship with yourself.
“The work is not to become someone else. It is to become more fully present to the life that is already yours.”
— The Inner Canvas
Fees & insurance
Sessions
Care is provided virtually to adults located in California. Current availability and session frequency are discussed before your first appointment.
Insurance & payment
The Inner Canvas is in-network with Aetna. Your exact responsibility depends on your individual plan, deductible, copay, and coinsurance. Please contact Aetna using the number on your insurance card to confirm your outpatient mental-health benefits.
Discuss coverage directlyAetna coverage, copays, deductibles, and eligibility vary by plan. Verification of benefits is not a guarantee of payment. For current private-pay information, please ask during your consultation.
Notes from the inner world
A first conversation
A consultation is a chance to share what brings you here, ask practical questions, and sense whether working together feels right.
Online throughout California · English & Spanish