About Marianne
Marianne Williams is a licensed professional counselor-clinical who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She supports clients facing addictions, relationship strain, low self-esteem, depression, and struggles with intimacy and anger. Marianne offers practical, down-to-earth support for career pressure, bipolar mood challenges, and life transitions.
She uses clear, collaborative methods in sessions. Marianne views each person as the expert on their own life and looks for strengths to build on. Conversations focus on small, manageable steps that fit into daily routines.
Background and approach
Her approach draws from acceptance and commitment work, cognitive behavioral ideas, and mindfulness practices. She also uses client-centered listening and skills from dialectical behavior therapy when helpful. These methods are used to teach coping skills, shift unhelpful patterns, and improve emotional regulation.
Marianne brings 14 years of professional experience in counseling to her practice in Kentucky. She aims to make the therapy process straightforward and respectful. Sessions tend to be practical and goal-oriented, while staying flexible to each person’s pace.
People seeking help for caregiver stress, codependency, communication problems, or addiction concerns can expect focused support. Marianne also addresses issues such as guilt, shame, impulsivity, and coping after divorce or other major life events. Her work emphasizes steady progress and realistic steps forward.
Approach and online care that fits your life
Marianne uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. ACT focuses on identifying values and taking small actions that matter despite discomfort, which can help with anxiety and low motivation.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and change behaviors that keep problems going. CBT techniques are practical for anxiety, depression, and managing impulses. Client-centered listening is part of each session so people feel heard while they try new strategies.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Marianne will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief updates, skill practice, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English
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