About Marlene
Marlene Dmytryshyn uses practical, evidence-based methods to help people facing relationship and life transitions. She is a licensed clinical social worker in New York with 40 years of experience. Marlene keeps sessions straightforward and focused on what matters most to each person.
She helps people who are dealing with relationship strain, family conflict, intimacy questions, and grief. Marlene also supports those coping with divorce, caregiver stress, chronic illness, loss, and questions about life purpose.
Background and approach
Her approach centers on the client’s strengths and lived experience rather than labels or assumptions. Marlene encourages clear, honest conversation about what is painful and what people hope to change. She listens closely, asks practical questions, and works with clients to identify doable steps between sessions.
Small, steady changes are the goal when challenges feel overwhelming. Over four decades Marlene has worked with many life stages and situations that bring anxiety, shame, or isolation. She uses that background to offer steady guidance and perspective.
Her style is warm and direct, with an emphasis on real-world coping strategies. For someone who is tired, stuck, or navigating loss, Marlene aims to create a space for sorting priorities and making forward movement. She invites people to name what they want to feel and to try achievable changes toward those goals.
Approaches and flexible online care
Many clinicians use evidence-based techniques that focus on current problems and practical skills. One common approach helps people identify patterns in relationships and then practice new ways of communicating and setting boundaries. This approach is useful for intimacy issues, infidelity, and family conflict.Another helpful technique emphasizes coping skills for grief, chronic illness, and caregiver stress. It teaches ways to manage strong emotions, reduce isolation, and plan small steps that improve daily life. These methods aim at making challenges easier to handle day to day.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and collaborate with the client to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That shared decision-making helps shape session focus and homework between meetings.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be a quicker check-in with less bandwidth, and messaging supports brief updates or therapy between calls. These choices make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and maintain continuity over time.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English