Anke Kalaiah

Anke Kalaiah is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist practicing in California with 15 years of clinical experience. She welcomes people seeking support for stress, anxiety, relationship and family conflicts, trauma and abuse, parenting concerns, addiction, grief, mood disorders, and other life challenges.

Trained in both Germany and the United States, she holds a bachelor’s degree in German and Social Psychology from Ruhr University in Bochum and completed a master’s degree in Counseling Psychology at Santa Clara University in 2011. She became a licensed marriage and family therapist in 2014. As an immigrant herself, she understands issues related to immigration, expatriate life, multicultural families, and cultural adaptation.

Her clinical focus in recent years has included trauma and abuse, domestic violence, sexual abuse, family and marital conflict, divorce and coparenting difficulties, blended family dynamics, and parenting problems. She works with adults and families across diverse cultural backgrounds and age groups.

Anke uses an eclectic, client-centered approach that emphasizes clients' strengths and goals. She combines solution-focused strategies with evidence-informed methods such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to explore links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach skills in mindfulness, distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness, and emotion regulation. Her aim is to offer practical tools that help clients manage symptoms and move toward greater well-being and flexibility in daily life.

Recognizing how many stressors people face today, she offers accessible options for connecting with a therapist and supports clients in taking the first steps toward help. She encourages anyone interested to reach out to discuss their individual situation and collaborate on a treatment plan.