About Marie
Marie Silva is a licensed clinical social worker in Texas who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and major life changes. She works with individuals dealing with relationship worries, parenting strain, low self-esteem, and compassion fatigue. Her approach is down-to-earth and focused on small, practical steps that build momentum over time.
Marie treats each person as the expert on their own life and looks for strengths to build on.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear goals, honest conversations, and techniques clients can use between meetings. She balances gentle support with practical tools so people can notice real shifts in how they cope. With 24 years of experience, Marie brings steady presence and a broad toolkit to common struggles like mood challenges, loneliness, guilt, and family of origin issues.
She draws on cognitive-behavioral methods and mindfulness practices to help people change unhelpful thoughts and respond more calmly to stress. She also uses acceptance and commitment ideas and emotionally focused work to clarify values, strengthen emotional awareness, and improve communication. That combination aims to help people feel more grounded and more connected to what matters to them.
Sessions are conversational and often include simple exercises to practice outside of appointments. Marie supports clients through tough transitions, forgiving themselves or others, and rebuilding when life feels overwhelming. Her style is practical, respectful, and paced to each person’s needs.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to clarify what matters most and take small actions toward those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. It can help with chronic anxiety, depression, and feeling stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to change mood and stress levels; it is useful for anxiety, low mood, and coping skills. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people recognize and name emotions and then use that awareness to shift how they relate to themselves and others, which can aid with relationship strain and feelings of isolation.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and what feels comfortable. Over time the plan can change based on what helps most, so clients remain active partners in shaping their care.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video gives face-to-face contact for deeper conversation, phone can fit into a busy schedule or when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options let people access therapy with more flexibility and make it easier to keep continuity during life transitions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English