About Marc
Marc Rott is a licensed clinical social worker with 26 years of practice experience. He offers a calm, straightforward style for people feeling stuck, anxious, or overwhelmed. His approach is collaborative and focused on practical change.
Marc draws on client-centered work to build a respectful space where people can speak honestly. He uses cognitive behavioral ideas to spot unhelpful patterns and to try different ways of thinking and acting. He also brings mindfulness and somatic techniques to help people notice how stress shows up in the body and mind.
Background and approach
He commonly helps people managing anxiety, stress, depression, relationship strain, and life transitions. He also supports concerns about self-esteem, intimacy, parenting, and communication problems. Additional focus areas include ADHD, autism and Asperger syndrome, body image, and issues related to kink and alternative sexual cultures.
Over his career Marc has worked in hospitals, independent practice, and higher education, where he taught for more than 25 years. That variety of settings informs a practical, flexible way of working that adapts to different needs and life situations. Sessions are paced to match what each person needs.
Marc aims to uncover the patterns that keep problems alive and to try small, manageable changes that add up. He emphasizes respect, clear thinking, and steady support while people work through change.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on building a respectful, accepting relationship where the person's own goals guide the work; it helps when someone needs a steady space to talk through feelings and decisions. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and offers practical exercises to test and change unhelpful patterns; CBT is useful for anxiety, stress, and low mood.Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. Marc will collaborate on which approaches to use based on each person's goals, needs, and comfort with techniques. That joint decision means the plan can shift as people try things and notice what helps most.
Online options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which give flexibility for different schedules and preferences. Video lets people work face to face when visual connection matters. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, coaching-style support, or keeping momentum between longer sessions. These formats help therapy fit into busy lives and make it possible to work across distances.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English
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