About Marika
Marika Dillard is a licensed clinical social worker who aims to make therapy approachable and practical. She focuses on stress and anxiety among other concerns and works to create a warm, collaborative space. Her style is goal oriented and centered on helping people notice small, meaningful changes.
Marika draws on client-centered methods to shape sessions around each person's priorities. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
Background and approach
Solution-focused work helps people find clear next steps when they feel stuck. She has six years of clinical work and holds the credentials LICSW and LCSW. Marika practices in North Carolina and has experience with clients from varied cultural backgrounds.
She has completed continuing education in cultural competence and has focused learning related to mood and behavioral concerns. In sessions she helps people work through relationship strain, parenting stress, grief, workplace pressure, and the daily impacts of trauma. She also addresses issues like self-esteem, anger, and isolation with practical strategies and short-term goals.
Marika emphasizes small wins and measurable progress. People meet her for both short-term problem solving and longer-term support. She partners with each person to set clear goals and revise them over time.
The emphasis is on real-life changes that fit a client’s day-to-day routines.
How Marika’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person in front of the therapist. It emphasizes listening and shaping sessions around what matters most to the client, which helps with stress, relationship concerns, and feeling heard.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It helps people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and practice small behavior changes that reduce anxiety and depression.
Solution-Focused Therapy aims at practical next steps. Sessions concentrate on clear goals and immediate actions to move a person forward when they feel stuck or overwhelmed.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Marika will work with each person to choose and adapt methods based on their needs, goals, and preferences. Goals are reviewed and adjusted over time so the work stays relevant.
Online therapy offers flexibility and fits different schedules. Video calls let you work face-to-face from wherever you are, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth or camera use is limited, and live chat or text messaging can be used for brief check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to keep consistent progress while juggling daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina, Nevada, North Carolina, Alabama
- Languages
- English
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