About Marie
Marie Simpson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Kentucky who helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, parenting strain, and depression. She draws on 25 years of experience to offer steady, practical support during hard transitions. Her style is calm and respectful and she tailors conversations to each person's needs.
In sessions she listens first and then helps people find workable steps. She uses straightforward tools to reduce panic, ease overwhelming thoughts, and build coping skills for everyday life.
Background and approach
She also addresses issues that come up around parenting, pregnancy and childbirth, postpartum mood changes, and blended family concerns. Marie often draws on cognitive behavioral methods to challenge unhelpful thinking. She incorporates client-centered talk so the person's goals guide the work.
She also uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help people live in line with their values even when anxiety or sadness is present. Her background includes long-term clinical work with people affected by trauma, abuse, and major life changes. That experience supports practical plans for managing triggers, reducing guilt and shame, and improving communication in strained relationships.
She emphasizes clear steps and small changes rather than vague promises. Sessions aim to be collaborative and paced to what each person can handle. Marie focuses on building skills that fit daily life.
Her goal is to help people feel more able to cope and to make steady, realistic progress toward a more manageable life.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without being driven by them, then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for ongoing anxiety and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments, which often helps with panic, depression, and stress. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people shift those patterns to feel more connected and understood.Choosing the best approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, symptoms, and preferences and then recommend approaches to try. That plan can shift over time based on what proves most helpful, and the client is involved in deciding next steps.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone calls can be used when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep continuity during transitions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Guilt and shame
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sexuality
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English
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