About Marissa
Marissa Patti-Marshall is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in North Carolina and South Carolina. She brings six years of practical experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and parenting concerns. Marissa focuses on clear, down-to-earth conversation so people feel heard and understood.
She uses a client-centered approach that prioritizes each person’s goals and values. That means sessions start with what matters most to the individual and build from there.
Background and approach
She pairs that with Cognitive Behavioral techniques and solution-focused strategies to help people notice patterns and try practical changes. Over her career she has supported people facing addiction, homelessness, and major life changes. She also works with those navigating adoption and foster care, attachment issues, autism and Asperger syndrome, and caregiver stress.
Her practice addresses relationship and family problems, grief, anger, and challenges with self-esteem and body image. Marissa emphasizes strengths and small steps. In sessions she helps people identify manageable actions, reframe unhelpful thoughts, and practice coping skills.
The aim is steady progress rather than quick fixes. Her credentials are South Carolina LISW-CP 16562 and North Carolina LCSW C014938. She offers sessions in English and provides video, phone, chat, or text-based options to fit different needs and schedules.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person’s priorities. In online sessions this means the therapist asks about what matters most and follows the client’s lead to set goals and topics to discuss. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people spot patterns in thoughts and behaviors and try practical experiments to change them. Online CBT often uses short homework, thought records, and concrete skill practice between sessions. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches coping skills for intense emotions and relationship situations; it emphasizes skills like distress tolerance and emotion regulation that can be practiced in daily life and reviewed in sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Then they will recommend an approach or mix of approaches and adjust as needed in ongoing sessions so the plan fits the person’s needs.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for different routines. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and text are useful for shorter check-ins, writing out thoughts, or keeping skills practice going between appointments. These options make it easier to schedule regular work and keep progress moving forward.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intellectual disability
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina, South Carolina
- Languages
- English