About Marie
Dr. Marie Isom is a Maryland-based clinician who centers her work on clear, practical support. She emphasizes respectful, sensitive care and helps people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, career setbacks, depression, and life transitions.
Her approach is warm and direct, aimed at helping people take the next manageable step toward change. Dr. Isom holds an MD and is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, LCPC.
She brings eight years of independent practice experience and a total of 19 years in the mental health field.
Background and approach
That blended background shapes a style that mixes talking, skill-building, and goal-focused work. Sessions are tailored to each person’s situation. She uses client-centered conversations to hear what matters most, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address troubling thoughts and habits, and mindfulness practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus.
Motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques help with commitment and short-term goals. People come for help with a wide range of concerns, including sleep or anger problems, parenting stress, trauma and grief, ADHD-related challenges, and relationship or family tensions. She also addresses caregiver strain, first responder issues, hoarding, and obsessive-compulsive patterns.
Dr. Isom works with people who prefer flexible session formats and offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. She invites those ready to explore change to begin with a short matching questionnaire and a scheduled session based on therapist availability.
Approaches that translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person in front of the therapist. It emphasizes listening, empathy, and tailoring conversations to what matters most. This approach is helpful when someone needs understanding and steady support while they sort through concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses practical exercises and small behavior changes to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, or break unhelpful patterns. CBT works well in brief online sessions that include homework between meetings.
Mindfulness Therapy invites simple attention practices to reduce reactivity and increase calm. Short guided exercises and breathwork can be done during video or phone sessions and practiced between contacts to build steady coping skills.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Dr. Isom collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort with online formats. She adjusts pacing and techniques as progress and preferences emerge.
Online therapy offers practical benefits. Video calls let people read facial cues and work more deeply. Phone sessions can fit into a work break or use less bandwidth. Live chat or text-based messaging allow quick check-ins, brief coaching, or follow-up between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting it into real life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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