About Marissa
Marissa Bracco is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 15 years of experience. She helps people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, and issues around self-esteem and intimacy. She also supports people facing challenges with sleep, eating, parenting, career changes, compassion fatigue, and ADHD.
Marissa practices in Florida and conducts sessions in English. Her approach is calm and welcoming. She focuses on building rapport first so clients feel comfortable talking about hard things.
Background and approach
Sessions are neutral and nonjudgmental, aimed at understanding each person’s priorities and strengths. Marissa combines client-centered care with cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness when helpful. She works together with clients to create clear, practical goals.
Treatment plans are tailored to the issues the person brings to therapy. Over her career she has spent a lot of time in school settings and has experience with people who have diagnoses such as ADHD, autism spectrum differences, depression, anxiety, OCD, and related mood concerns.
She has also worked with people facing financial strain, adjustment to life changes, and the effects of trauma and abuse. People who choose her can expect straightforward conversation about goals and steps to reach them. She aims to help clients develop coping skills and clearer communication patterns.
Marissa welcomes the chance to support someone taking that first step toward change.
How her approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the client. The therapist follows the person’s lead and offers support that respects their values and pace; this helps with relationship issues, grief, and self-esteem concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It teaches practical skills for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and coping with life changes by testing unhelpful thoughts and trying new behaviors.
Mindfulness Therapy adds simple attention and breathing practices to reduce stress and improve focus. It can help people manage emotional reactions, eating and sleeping patterns, and compassion fatigue.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then try methods that match those needs. This collaborative process allows adjustments over time if something isn’t working.
Online sessions can be done by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing, flexible contact. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English