About Marie
Marie Silva is a licensed clinical social worker with more than two decades of experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress and anxiety and those wrestling with grief, low mood, or shifting life circumstances. Marie offers calm, straightforward support and helps people find small, steady steps forward.
Her approach starts by listening. Marie believes each person is the expert on their own life and looks for strengths to build on.
Background and approach
Sessions often involve practical strategies for managing anxious thoughts, improving everyday habits, and restoring emotional balance. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to identify and change unhelpful thinking patterns. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas help people act on the values that matter to them, even when feelings are hard.
Mindfulness practices are offered to reduce reactivity and increase present-moment awareness. Marie also draws on client-centered and emotionally focused approaches to create a warm, respectful space. She aims to help people improve communication, work through family of origin issues, and cope with feelings like guilt, shame, or emptiness.
The work is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. Based in Texas, Marie has worked with a wide range of concerns including relationship strain, parenting stress, compassion fatigue, and mood disorders. Her style is steady and practical, helping people make tangible changes without rushing the process.
How Marie’s Approaches Translate to Online Sessions
Marie uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify what matters in their lives and take steps toward those values, even when anxiety or difficult feelings are present. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and try practical experiments to change behaviors that keep problems stuck.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Marie will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and together decide which methods to try first. That decision is revisited as progress is made so the plan fits what is actually helping.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people use visual cues and practice communication in real time. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a quieter connection is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging provide flexibility for brief check-ins, journaling-style reflections, or support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to try different formats to see what works best.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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