About Marika
Marika Dillard is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and life changes. She offers straightforward, goal-focused support with an emphasis on practical steps people can use between sessions. Her approach is warm and collaborative, aimed at helping clients notice progress and build on small gains.
Marika practices from a place of respect for each person’s background. She has six years of experience and holds LICSW and LCSW credentials: AL LICSW 6391C and NC LCSW C018668.
Background and approach
She works with adults on concerns that include relationships, parenting strain, workplace pressure, and caregiving stress. In sessions she combines client-centered listening with problem-solving strategies. That means she will listen closely, help you name priorities, and try out specific changes that fit your life.
She also draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to spot patterns in thinking and behavior that make things harder. Marika pays attention to cultural context and brings a practical focus to sensitive topics like trauma, compassion fatigue, and identity-related stress. She can help with day-to-day challenges such as managing anger, improving communication, and navigating blended family issues.
Therapy with her is offered in several online formats. The aim is to create clear goals together, track how things are changing, and adapt the plan as needed so progress feels realistic and sustainable.
How her approaches work online
Marika uses client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy as primary tools. Client-centered therapy centers on listening and responding to each person’s needs, helping them feel heard and understood while they set their own goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and offers practical techniques to change unhelpful patterns, which can help with anxiety, depression, and anger.She also draws on solution-focused therapy to keep sessions action oriented. That approach highlights small, doable changes and builds on what is already working in your life. Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work - Marika will collaborate with you to decide what fits your goals and preferences and will adjust as needed over time.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video allows more face-to-face interaction, phone can be lower bandwidth, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to maintain momentum between appointments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina, Nevada, North Carolina, Alabama
- Languages
- English