About Marsha
Marsha (Marcie) Eriksen Hanna welcomes people who are feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure what comes next. She speaks plainly and meets people where they are, helping them notice strengths and find practical steps forward. Marsha is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and she draws on over 21 years of experience to guide adults through hard transitions.
She helps with grief and loss, low self-esteem, depression, and anxiety. She also supports people facing career changes, caregiver strain, compassion fatigue, and issues related to aging or hospice care.
Background and approach
Relationship concerns, family tensions, intimacy worries, parenting stress, and loneliness are part of her practice focus as well. Marsha uses a strengths-based, solution-focused, and cognitive approach to shape sessions around short-term goals and doable strategies. Conversations are straightforward and collaborative.
Sessions often include practical tools, small experiments to try between meetings, and attention to how daily routines affect mood. Her style is warm, direct, and respectful. She listens actively and offers clear feedback.
The aim is to help people build confidence, reduce overwhelm, and improve day-to-day functioning. Marsha earned a Master of Social Work from San Diego State University and completed an intergenerational specialist certificate at the University of Pittsburgh. She practices in California and relies on approaches suited to each person’s situation.
How practical therapy works online with evidence-based techniques
Marsha uses a strengths-based approach that helps people spot what is already working in their lives and build on those resources. This approach is useful for coping with grief, caregiver strain, or times of major change because it keeps focus on doable steps.She also uses solution-focused methods which break larger problems into small, achievable goals. These techniques are good for reducing overwhelm and for people who want clear action plans they can try between sessions.
Marsha incorporates cognitive methods to help people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and test new ways of thinking. This can ease anxiety, low mood, and self-doubt by linking thoughts to everyday behaviors and goals.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. Marsha will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. She adapts pace and techniques based on what is most helpful in real life.
Online therapy with her is offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Chat and messaging make it easy to fit brief conversations into a busy day or to reflect in writing between meetings. These formats aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to use alongside work, caregiving, and daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Stress, Anxiety
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English