About Marci
Marci Gilpin is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with twenty years of experience offering psychotherapy in Virginia. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and the fallout from trauma. Her work also addresses family and parenting concerns, relationship struggles, and life changes that can feel overwhelming.
Marci aims to identify each person’s strengths and turn those into practical tools for daily life. She pays attention to how family patterns and environment shape feelings and behavior.
Background and approach
Sessions often include building routines for sleep, coping skills for anger or anxiety, and clearer ways to communicate with others. Her background includes supporting people through grief, fertility and adoption issues, caregiver strain, chronic illness, and challenges related to attention differences. She also works with people facing career stress, burnout, compassion fatigue, and difficulties with intimacy or commitment.
Marci uses a mix of approaches to fit each person’s needs, including client-centered work, cognitive behavioral ideas, mindfulness practices, existential questions about meaning, and trauma-focused EMDR. She combines these so sessions stay practical and grounded in real problems and goals. People who do best with her tend to want a straightforward therapist who notices life context and offers hands-on strategies.
She helps people make small changes that add up to better sleep, steadier moods, clearer relationships, and more effective daily coping.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Marci uses client-centered work to focus on each person’s priorities and strengths. This approach means conversations start with what matters most to the person, and the therapist follows their lead to set goals and plan next steps.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. That makes it easier to try small experiments, change unhelpful thinking, and learn new routines for sleep, mood, or stress management.
EMDR is part of her toolkit for people with trauma. It works by helping the brain process memories that still cause strong reactions, often reducing the power of painful images and feelings over time.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Marci will discuss options and collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals and comfort level. The plan can change as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth sessions that benefit from face-to-face contact. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone needs a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for brief updates, tracking progress, or getting tools between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep continuity when schedules shift.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English