About Marilyn
Marilyn Priebe is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Louisiana with 30 years of professional experience. She focuses on stress and anxiety and aims to make beginning therapy feel manageable for people who are unsure where to start. She meets each person as the expert on their own life.
Marilyn looks for strengths and practical ways to use them when problems feel overwhelming. She keeps language simple and meetings direct so someone can use what they learn right away.
Background and approach
Her work often addresses depression, relationship challenges, grief, trauma, and parenting concerns. She also supports people facing aging or cancer-related issues, hospice and end-of-life counseling, and changes such as divorce or separation. Panic, phobias, postpartum depression, and post-traumatic stress are included among the issues she sees.
Sessions typically focus on clear steps and coping tools. Marilyn helps people break large problems into smaller pieces and build habits that reduce stress and increase confidence. She emphasizes collaboration and steady progress rather than quick fixes.
Marilyn brings decades of hands-on practice to each meeting. Clients can expect straightforward conversation, empathetic listening, and guidance toward useful strategies. The aim is to help people feel more able to handle day-to-day challenges and move toward the life they want.
Evidence-based approaches and online options
Marilyn uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques tailored to each person. One common approach focuses on teaching coping skills and behavioral strategies to reduce anxiety and panic symptoms. This involves identifying triggers, practicing breathing and grounding techniques, and building step-by-step plans to face fearful situations.Another frequent strand emphasizes grief and loss work that helps people process difficult emotions and find ways to honor what they have lost. Sessions include guided conversation, memory work, and practical planning for daily life during and after major transitions.
Deciding which approach fits best happens together. Marilyn works collaboratively to match techniques to a person's goals, needs, and comfort level. She revisits the plan over time and adjusts based on how well the work is helping.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video lets people use face-to-face interaction from wherever they are. Phone calls can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a quieter connection is needed. Live chat and messaging allow shorter check-ins and written reflections between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Cancer
- Codependency
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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