About Marilyn
Marilyn Verbiscer is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 24 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, relationship problems, grief, or changes at work and home. Her style is direct and practical, aimed at helping clients make usable changes in daily life.
Marilyn uses clear, goal-oriented methods to help people manage strong emotions like anger, worry, and low mood. She also supports people coping with sleep problems, intimacy-related concerns, sexual dysfunction, and the strains of blended families or divorce.
Background and approach
She helps people stop smoking or vaping and work through family-of-origin difficulties. Her background includes a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a Master of Science in Child Development and Family Studies from Purdue University. She has taught psychology courses at universities and has presented on topics such as infidelity and tele-mental health.
Her long experience gives her a broad perspective on relationship and mood concerns. In sessions she favors live video as it allows more focused work and faster progress, though phone, live chat, and text messaging are also options. Typical live video sessions run 30 to 45 minutes.
Marilyn checks messages Monday through Friday and aims to reply within 24 hours on weekdays. Clients can expect practical tools drawn from evidence-based approaches. She helps people set clear goals, try small changes between sessions, and track progress.
The therapeutic work is collaborative and paced to each person's situation.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people accept difficult thoughts and feelings while committing to actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and when life changes feel overwhelming. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and helps people test and change unhelpful habits to reduce symptoms like worry, low mood, and sleep problems. The Gottman Method concentrates on relationship skills and communication to reduce conflict and rebuild connection between partners.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Marilyn collaborates with each person to choose which methods fit their goals and preferences. She often blends techniques so sessions address immediate problems while building longer-term coping skills. Clients and therapist review what is and isn't helping and adjust the plan together.
Online formats give practical flexibility. Live video is recommended for more in-depth work and usually lasts 30 to 45 minutes, while phone calls can be a good shorter option when bandwidth is low. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to check in between sessions or fit brief conversations into a busy day. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around work and family obligations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Indiana, Illinois
- Languages
- English
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