About Marsha
Marsha Clarke provides support for people dealing with stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, and LGBT-related concerns. She draws on twenty years of professional experience to offer steady, practical help. Marsha is a licensed clinical social worker in North Carolina (LCSW C015196).
She approaches sessions as a chance to listen and make concrete plans. Marsha treats each person as the expert on their own life and looks for strengths to build on.
Background and approach
Conversations focus on small, doable steps that reduce overwhelm and help people move toward clearer goals. In sessions she helps clients talk through painful memories, repair connection issues, and find ways to manage daily anxiety. She also supports people facing aging and geriatric concerns, hospice and end-of-life questions, and multicultural challenges.
Her work with grief centers on practical coping strategies and gentle pacing. Marsha offers several online formats to fit different needs, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. This flexibility makes it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to choose a pace that feels right.
Her style is straightforward and warm. She helps people set clear short-term goals and checks progress along the way. The aim is to make therapy useful and manageable, one step at a time.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Marsha uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on practical change and emotional healing. One common approach she relies on emphasizes identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them against real-life evidence to reduce anxiety and mood symptoms. This technique helps people notice patterns and try small behavior changes to feel better.Another approach centers on processing difficult experiences slowly and safely. That work helps people reduce the power of painful memories and relearn safety in relationships and daily life. It is useful for trauma, grief, and ongoing stress reactions.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Marsha works together with each person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. She checks in regularly and adjusts the plan as progress and priorities change.
Online therapy offers ways to fit sessions into life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is limited or a hands-free option is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging give shorter check-ins and ongoing support between sessions. These formats make therapy more flexible and easier to schedule around work, caregiving, or mobility needs.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English