About Marilyn
Marilyn DeLuera helps people who are dealing with trauma, grief, anxiety, depression, parenting strain, relationship issues, anger, mood swings, ADHD, and life changes. She is a licensed clinical social worker with 14 years of experience and works with concerns such as compassion fatigue, self-esteem, and coping after loss. Her approach aims to make small, practical changes that add up to steadier days.
Marilyn listens first and makes space for each person’s story.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what matters most now and on building skills to manage stress and strong emotions. She uses straightforward techniques to challenge unhelpful thoughts, strengthen attachments, and rewrite painful narratives into more hopeful ones. Her style is warm and direct.
She encourages people to notice strengths they already have and to try small experiments between sessions. Conversations can revisit the past when that helps, but most work centers on practical steps for today. Marilyn draws from client-centered work, attachment ideas, cognitive behavioral methods, motivational interviewing, and narrative approaches.
Those tools are used flexibly to match a person’s goals and pace. She explains options plainly and helps people choose what feels right. Based in Florida, Marilyn has helped people for over a decade and brings life experience as a daughter, parent, and grandparent to her work.
She accepts international clients and conducts sessions in English. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a time that fits them.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current connections. Work here looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people build safer, more reliable ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people spot unhelpful thought patterns and try new behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and mood concerns. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes the person’s perspective and strengths. The therapist listens closely, reflects understanding, and supports the client in finding their own solutions.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss options, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on goals and what feels effective. This collaborative process helps match methods to the person’s needs and pace.
Online sessions offer flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when seeing expressions matters. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, skill practice, or ongoing reflection between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into workdays, caregiving routines, or travel, and maintain momentum when life is busy.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English