About Marianne
Marianne Penichet is a Florida licensed clinical social worker with over 26 years of experience. She focuses on practical help for people dealing with anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, and the aftermath of trauma. Marianne frames clients as the experts in their own lives and aims to build on existing strengths to move forward.
She uses straightforward conversation to clarify what matters most to each person. Sessions tend to focus on small, doable steps that reduce stress and increase confidence.
Background and approach
Marianne listens for patterns that keep problems stuck and offers tools that can be used between meetings. Her background includes long-term work with mood disorders, grief, and issues tied to identity and sexuality. She also has experience supporting people facing addiction, chronic illness, and difficult life transitions.
That history shapes a flexible, practical approach to treatment. Marianne draws from methods that encourage change through clear goals and motivation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy ideas help people spot and shift unhelpful thoughts.
Motivational Interviewing helps clarify values and fuel commitment to change, and Solution-Focused Therapy helps set immediate, achievable goals. People who do best with Marianne tend to want a straightforward plan and coach-style support. She aims to make progress feel manageable and to keep work applicable to daily life.
Her practice is based in Florida and sessions are offered in English.
How Marianne’s Methods Work Online
Marianne uses approaches that translate well to virtual care. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors link together and offers practical exercises to change those patterns. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems.Motivational Interviewing focuses on helping someone find their own reasons to change and builds momentum for that change. It suits people who feel stuck or unsure about taking the next step. Solution-Focused Therapy emphasizes small, concrete goals and next-step actions to create quick progress in everyday life.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. Marianne will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has worked before. Together they shape a plan that can include skill-building, short experiments, or longer-term work depending on needs.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send notes or check in between sessions, which can help keep momentum and make support more accessible.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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