About Marilyn
Marilyn Priebe is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Louisiana with 30 years of professional experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, or depression. Her approach begins by listening and noticing the strengths each person already has.
She treats trauma and abuse concerns and supports people managing relationship struggles and parenting pressures. Marilyn also helps those facing life changes like divorce, caregiving, cancer, aging issues, or end-of-life concerns.
Background and approach
She pays attention to practical needs and emotional responses together. Marilyn believes clients are the experts on their own lives. She works alongside people to set goals and try steps that feel doable.
Sessions are grounded in evidence-based therapeutic techniques and practical problem solving. Her style is steady and straightforward. She offers clear options and gentle encouragement.
The focus is on skills that reduce anxiety, manage panic, and improve day-to-day functioning. People reach out for help with PTSD, panic attacks, phobias, postpartum depression, and family of origin issues. Marilyn also addresses codependency, control issues, guilt, shame, and finding life purpose.
She aims to make the work feel manageable and real.
Evidence-based methods and online flexibility
Marilyn uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional understanding. One common approach involves teaching coping skills for anxiety and panic - skills that help manage physical symptoms and reduce avoidance. Another approach focuses on trauma-informed care, helping people process difficult memories and learn ways to feel steadier in daily life.Finding the right approach is collaborative. Marilyn works with each person to figure out which techniques fit their goals and preferences. She offers options and checks in regularly to adjust focus as needs shift over time.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow deeper conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to send brief updates or handle quick coping moments between sessions. These formats help people fit therapy into busy days and across different routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Cancer
- Codependency
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English