About Marsha
Marsha Rimler is a licensed clinical social worker in New York with 20 years of experience. She helps people who are facing relationship struggles, low self esteem, career stress, and depression. She encourages clients to build on strengths they already have.
Starting therapy can feel hard, and she acknowledges that first step as important. Marsha focuses on practical steps people can use between sessions. She listens for patterns that hold people back and offers ways to try new habits.
Background and approach
She draws on an attachment perspective to look at how past bonds shape current relationships. She also uses cognitive behavioral ideas to test unhelpful thoughts and try different actions. Her style is warm and collaborative.
She treats each person as the expert on their own life and works together with them to set goals. Sessions aim to be straightforward and useful, not full of jargon. Marsha pays attention to everyday problems like sleep, parenting strain, caregiving stress, workplace pressure, and burnout from compassion fatigue.
People who contact her often want help with grief, trauma, intimacy concerns, anger, or feelings of isolation. She also addresses issues such as ADHD symptoms, attachment wounds, and life purpose questions. Marsha supports clients dealing with infidelity, family of origin problems, and the challenges of aging and caregiving.
Therapy can include short skill building, problem solving, or deeper processing depending on what someone needs. Sessions are offered in English and take place through online formats. Marsha aims to help people make steady, manageable changes they can keep using after therapy ends.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships influence current patterns. In online sessions this means noticing how clients connect, trust, and react in close relationships, then trying new ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. Online CBT often includes homework, thought records, and small experiments to try between sessions.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That may mean combining attachment ideas with CBT tools or shifting focus as needs evolve.
Online formats offer flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow full conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, skill practice, or for people who prefer typing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work days, caregiving schedules, or when travel would be difficult.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English