About Marci
Marci Gilpin is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with about 20 years of experience helping people navigate stress and anxiety. She practices from Virginia and focuses on practical ways to cope with life changes. Marci listens and helps people identify strengths they already have.
Her approach centers on the person in context. She pays attention to family and environmental influences that affect daily life. Sessions look at emotions, behavior, and relationships in simple, concrete terms.
Background and approach
Marci uses approaches like client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, existential reflection, and EMDR when appropriate. That means she often helps people spot thinking patterns, try small behavior changes, and use present-moment awareness to manage stress. For some who have trauma, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing may be part of the work.
She has supported people facing grief, depression, bipolar concerns, ADHD, sleep problems, anger, and relationship struggles. Marci also addresses family of origin or blended family issues, adoption and foster care questions, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and fertility or fatherhood concerns. Work with her is collaborative and down-to-earth.
She helps people set realistic goals and practice skills between sessions. The focus is on useful steps that fit each person’s life and needs.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building on the person’s strengths to set goals that matter. It helps people feel heard and involved in deciding what to work on. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and uses small experiments and practice to change patterns that increase anxiety or depression.EMDR, when used, involves guided attention techniques to help process upsetting memories related to trauma. It can reduce the intensity of traumatic memories and make them easier to talk about in sessions. These approaches are chosen to match each person’s needs rather than applied the same way to everyone.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and is worked out together. The therapist will listen to goals, try a few methods, and adjust plans based on how the person responds. That collaboration helps decide whether to focus more on skills, reflection, or trauma processing.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let people use visual cues for deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging make it possible to check in between sessions or fit support into a busy day. These options help people keep therapy consistent around work, family, and other responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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