About Marie
Marie Simpson is a licensed clinical social worker in Kentucky with 25 years of experience helping people with stress, anxiety, trauma, parenting concerns, and depression. She speaks plainly and listens carefully to figure out what is most urgent for each person. Her approach aims to make small, useful changes that fit daily life.
She works with people coping with big life changes and with those recovering from abuse or traumatic events.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing panic attacks, postpartum depression, seasonal mood shifts, and relationship or communication problems. Caregiver stress, blended family issues, and concerns about control and guilt are common topics she helps people sort through. In sessions she uses a mix of practical methods.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps spot thought patterns that get in the way. Attachment-based ideas and Emotionally-Focused Therapy guide conversations about connection and trust. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy supports values-based choices when life feels stuck.
Marie adapts the pace and tools to each person. She aims for clear goals and simple steps that can be tried between meetings. She emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and a collaborative tone so people feel heard while making concrete progress.
People who reach out will complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions that fit their life. The focus is on useful, manageable change rather than jargon or long-term commitment.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Marie often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thinking and try practical behavior changes. CBT is useful for anxiety, panic, and depression because it focuses on clear steps and experiments. She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to explore how relationships and early patterns affect current connections and trust, which can help with attachment issues and communication struggles.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about needs, goals, and preferences, then suggest methods to try together. This is a collaborative process, and plans can shift as progress is made or goals change.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video is good for in-depth conversations and seeing nonverbal cues. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging can be helpful for shorter check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, and flexible timing. These options make it easier to get consistent help while balancing work, caregiving, or other commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Guilt and shame
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sexuality
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English