About Marsha
Marsha Kerr helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, relationship strain, and struggles with self-esteem. She works with those living with mood disorders, bipolar symptoms, and compassion fatigue. Marsha also supports people dealing with LGBT issues, life transitions, and challenges tied to aging and midlife changes.
She keeps sessions focused on the person in front of her. Marsha listens first, then helps clients clarify goals and practical next steps.
Background and approach
Her approach blends talk, reflection, and skill-building to handle everyday problems and painful past experiences. Marsha brings 25 years of experience in social work to her practice. She earned a clinical social work degree from New York University and holds an LCSW.
Over her career she has worked extensively with underserved and disenfranchised groups while also supporting adults seeking more meaning and satisfaction. Her work often emphasizes mindfulness and gratitude as tools people can use every day. She pairs those practices with cognitive strategies to change unhelpful thinking and psychodynamic insight when early patterns show up again and again.
Sessions aim to be collaborative and grounded in what the client needs right now. People come to Marsha for help sorting out where to start, coping with loss, improving communication, and regaining a sense of purpose. She offers practical steps for managing symptoms and building a life that feels more steady and fulfilling.
Approaches that fit your life and schedule
Marsha uses Client-Centered Therapy to focus on each person’s experience and priorities. This approach means sessions begin with listening and respect, and goals are set together so therapy follows what feels most important to the client. It is helpful for people seeking clearer direction and emotional support.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. CBT teaches practical skills for spotting unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors, and it is often useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Together these approaches balance emotional understanding with concrete strategies.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Marsha will discuss options, try techniques, and adjust plans based on what helps most. That collaborative process helps match the method to the client’s goals and preferences.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful when visual cues and a more traditional session feel are important. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging offer flexible, lower-intensity ways to stay connected between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and changing routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English