About Marilyn
Marilyn Garcia is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, and career concerns. She works with individuals to build confidence, manage panic, and cope with life changes. Her approach is straightforward and respectful, aimed at making the first steps feel manageable.
Marilyn draws on seven years of professional experience and holds LICSW and LISW credentials. She adapts conversations and plans to each person's needs instead of using a one-size-fits-all method.
Background and approach
That means sessions focus on what matters most to the client, whether that's reducing panic attacks or improving self-esteem. In sessions she uses practical strategies like cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and solution-focused ideas to set small, achievable goals. She also uses client-centered listening to make space for someone to be heard.
When past trauma is relevant, trauma-focused work is available to help process difficult experiences safely. Marilyn has worked across multiple states and practices from New York. She supports people with workplace stress, caregiver strain, communication problems, social anxiety, and issues common to young adults and women.
Conversations are delivered in English and shaped to the person's pace and priorities. Starting therapy is framed as a collaborative effort. Marilyn aims to make planning clear and practical so clients can try new coping skills between sessions and track progress over time.
Practical approaches for online anxiety and stress care
Marilyn uses client-centered work to start conversations where the person is. This means she listens first, reflects what she hears, and helps set goals that matter to the client. That approach helps people feel understood before moving into specific strategies.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying and changing thoughts and behaviors that keep anxiety and panic going. CBT offers concrete tools to reduce worry, manage panic attacks, and build confidence in daily situations.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Marilyn will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their concerns, goals, and comfort level, and she will adjust the plan as progress or needs change.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video is useful for full conversations and skill practice, while phone calls can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging can keep momentum between sessions or provide quicker check-ins. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep working on stress and anxiety consistently.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Iowa, Washington
- Languages
- English
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