About Marie
Marie Pierre-Canel is a Florida licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) who helps people facing stress and anxiety. She works with adults who are dealing with relationship strain, parenting pressures, life changes, trauma, and mood concerns such as depression and bipolar symptoms. She speaks English, Spanish, French, and Haitian Creole to connect with diverse communities.
Marie uses straightforward conversation to identify what feels hardest and what small steps might help. Sessions are practical and goal-focused when needed, and they can also be a space to talk things through at a slower pace.
Background and approach
She draws on a range of therapeutic styles to match each person’s needs. Over eight years of practice have shaped her approach to communication and attachment patterns. She pays attention to how past hurts affect current relationships and daily coping.
That perspective helps people clarify patterns around control, commitment, or isolation. Marie often uses cognitive-behavioral tools to address anxious thoughts and routine habits. She also brings narrative and client-centered ideas to help people rewrite unhelpful stories about themselves.
Motivational techniques are used when clients want help finding direction or making changes. In sessions she focuses on practical skills like stress management, improving communication, and building self-esteem. She also supports people managing caregiver strain, compassion fatigue, anger, or body image concerns.
The goal is to leave each session with something to try between meetings.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person’s experience. The therapist follows the client’s lead, offers empathy, and helps people notice what matters most in their lives. This approach is useful for exploring identity, self-esteem, and relationship patterns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect mood. It uses clear exercises and homework to challenge anxious thoughts and build different habits. CBT is often used for stress, anxiety, and low mood because it gives practical steps to try between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Marie will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide whether a listening-focused approach, skill-building CBT, or a mix is the best fit for the issue at hand.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video helps keep a face-to-face feel, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat or messaging work well for quick check-ins or ongoing support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to continue work between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Forgiveness
- Isolation / loneliness
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish, French, Haitian Creole
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