About Marsha
Marsha Carlton is a licensed clinical social worker in Georgia. She has 13 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma and grief. She focuses on practical steps that fit each person's life and goals.
Marsha uses a mix of approaches to guide conversations and build new coping skills. She often draws on acceptance and commitment ideas to help people notice difficult thoughts without getting stuck. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques for handling unhelpful habits and patterns.
Background and approach
Her practice emphasizes listening and adjusting to what each person needs. Sessions are shaped around short-term goals and real tasks to try between meetings. That can include exercises for self-compassion, communication practice, or strategies to reduce cravings and manage urges.
Marsha has worked with people facing relationship strain, family problems, and life changes such as divorce or loss. She also supports those dealing with addiction, domestic violence histories, and ongoing guilt or shame. Attachment-related concerns and codependency are common topics in her work.
She explains credentials plainly: LCSW means Licensed Clinical Social Worker and CSW is Clinical Social Work designation. Marsha aims to create straightforward, respectful conversations so people can move forward at their own pace.
Approach-focused online therapy that fits your life
Marsha often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice difficult thoughts without letting them drive behavior. ACT encourages choosing actions that match personal values even when feelings are uncomfortable, which can help with anxiety, shame, and grief. She also works with Attachment-Based Therapy ideas to look at how early relationship patterns affect current bonds and communication. That approach helps when people struggle with abandonment fears, codependency, or trust issues.Choosing the right approach is part of the process and happens together. The therapist will talk about goals, try methods that seem likely to help, and adjust based on how things go. Clients and the therapist make decisions together about which techniques to use and when to shift focus.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide practical flexibility. Video lets for face-to-face work and role-play practice. Phone calls can be lower bandwidth and easier to fit into a lunch break. Live chat or text messaging can be useful for shorter check-ins, tracking mood, or getting support between longer sessions. These options help make regular work on goals simpler to maintain.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Isolation / loneliness
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English