About Marian
Marian O'Quin is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 26 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, anger, and trauma find practical ways to feel better. She speaks plainly and focuses on small, manageable steps so overwhelmed parents can read and decide quickly.
Marian uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. She adapts plans to what each person needs and keeps sessions focused on clear goals.
Background and approach
That means working on specific problems such as waking with worry, low mood, or trouble managing anger. Her background includes long practice in Louisiana and a history of helping people after traumatic events and loss. She also works with concerns like guilt, shame, loneliness, life purpose, and mood changes after childbirth.
Marian draws on many years of clinical experience to shape each session around what matters most to the client. Sessions are collaborative and straightforward. Marian listens first, then suggests concrete skills and small experiments to try between meetings.
She aims to help people build habits that reduce persistent anxiety and improve daily functioning. People who choose Marian get steady, practical support. The work is paced to each person’s comfort and goals.
The focus is on what can change now and how to carry those changes forward.
How CBT and online sessions work together
Marian primarily uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and change small behaviors that keep anxiety and low mood going. CBT breaks problems into concrete steps and gives clear exercises to practice between meetings. These skills are useful for managing worry, panic, low mood, and day-to-day stressors.She also adapts trauma-focused techniques when needed, helping people process distressing memories and reduce their impact on daily life. That work includes pacing, grounding strategies, and targeted thinking work to slowly change how the past affects the present.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Marian works with each person to decide which method fits their goals and comfort level. Together they set goals, test new skills, and adjust the plan based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited, and text or chat support quick check-ins or short sessions between meetings. These formats make it easier to keep regular contact, try skills in daily life, and stay consistent with treatment.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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