About Marsha
Marsha (Marcie) Eriksen Hanna is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who connects with adults who are feeling anxious, overwhelmed, or stuck. She speaks plainly and aims to help people regain confidence, manage stress, and find practical ways forward. Her early steps focus on identifying strengths and small changes that can make daily life feel more manageable.
Marcie uses a strengths-based and solution-focused outlook combined with cognitive behavioral ideas to help clients change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
She brings 21 years of practice working with depression, grief, anxiety, relationship and family concerns, parenting stress, and career difficulties. Her work also addresses compassion fatigue, caregiver strain, and issues that come with aging or end-of-life care. Her style is warm, direct, and respectful.
Sessions aim to be encouraging and practical. She listens actively and helps people shape concrete strategies they can try between visits. Marcie earned a Master of Social Work from San Diego State University and also completed an Intergenerational Specialist certificate program at the University of Pittsburgh.
She holds a California Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential - LCSW. Therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, letting people choose what fits their day. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and scheduling follows based on therapist availability.
How Marcie Uses Practical Approaches Online
Marcie draws on a strengths-based approach that highlights what is already working in someone’s life and builds on those abilities to tackle anxiety and stress. This approach looks for small, doable changes that make day-to-day life easier and more manageable.She also uses solution-focused techniques that zero in on clear goals and immediate steps. These techniques help people develop short-term strategies for coping with worry, grief, career transitions, or caregiver strain. Cognitive behavioral ideas are part of her work as well, helping people notice unhelpful thought patterns and try alternative ways of thinking and acting to reduce symptoms of anxiety and low mood.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. She will work with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That collaborative process can include trying different techniques and adjusting the plan as progress is seen.
Online sessions offer flexibility. Video calls let people have face-to-face conversation when a full discussion is needed. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is preferred. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to get support across the day and maintain momentum between longer sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Stress, Anxiety
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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