About Marianne
Marianne Shaffer is a licensed clinical social worker with four years of experience practicing in Mississippi. She brings a warm, thoughtful presence to sessions and aims to balance emotional support with clear, practical guidance. Her style is direct but caring, focused on helping people manage immediate problems and build new skills for the future.
She helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, anger, trauma and abuse, relationship concerns, and life changes.
Background and approach
Marianne also works with people experiencing postpartum depression and offers steady support during a difficult transition. Sessions emphasize listening first, then working together on specific ways to feel better day to day. Her approach draws on cognitive behavioral ideas and mindfulness techniques to help people notice unhelpful thinking patterns and learn gentler ways to respond.
Marianne tailors conversations and strategies to each person’s situation instead of using a one-size-fits-all plan. That means practical tools and short exercises you can try between meetings. She is comfortable using phone calls, video sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to meet clients where they are.
Marianne encourages a collaborative process where progress is checked regularly and goals are adjusted as needed. She aims to make the work manageable and focused on what matters most to each person. Starting therapy is often a hard step.
Marianne offers straightforward, compassionate guidance to help people move forward at a pace that fits their life.
Working with evidence-based techniques online
Marianne uses cognitive behavioral ideas in sessions to help people notice and change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors. This approach breaks problems into manageable steps and focuses on practical strategies for anxiety, depression, and stress.She also incorporates mindfulness practices to help clients become more aware of their present moment experience. Those simple exercises can reduce reactivity to stress and support calmer thinking during high-anxiety moments.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Marianne will talk with each person about goals, try techniques, and adjust methods based on what works best. The therapist and client decide together which tools fit the situation and preferences.
Online therapy offers real flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction when deeper conversation is needed. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when being on camera is not desired. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, quick coping skills, or when scheduling a full session is difficult. These options help therapy fit into busy lives and make it easier to keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Anger management
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Postpartum depression
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English
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