About Marissa
Marissa Boscia-Wittekind is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York who uses a collaborative, practical approach to help people move forward. She encourages honest communication so sessions stay focused on real goals. Her style is warm and straightforward and she aims to help clients get unstuck from patterns that no longer serve them.
Marissa draws from client-centered work to build a trusting relationship. She also uses cognitive behavioral ideas to identify unhelpful thinking and solution-focused tools to set small, achievable steps.
Background and approach
Sessions are grounded in strengths and practical strategies rather than abstract theory. Early meetings prioritize connection and clarity. The first session is often about background, what brought the person to therapy, and what they want to change.
From there she helps set clear goals and plans that fit day-to-day life. She has worked in the field for 11 years and brings that experience to common concerns like anxiety, stress, depression, and trauma and abuse. Marissa also supports people dealing with addiction, grief, anger, parenting strain, and career transitions.
Additional focuses include attachment issues, body image, codependency, postpartum depression, post-traumatic stress, and smoking or vaping cessation. She helps young adults and others who are navigating life changes and compassion fatigue. Overall Marissa aims for a practical therapy that honors each person’s strengths and choices while offering clear tools to reduce distress and build momentum toward their goals.
How her approaches work in online therapy
Marissa uses client-centered work to create a respectful, collaborative space where the person’s experiences guide the session. This approach focuses on listening, reflecting, and helping people notice their strengths so they can choose the changes they want to make.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect. CBT helps identify unhelpful thinking, try new behaviors, and practice skills for anxiety, mood, and stress related problems.
Solution-focused methods are used to break larger problems into small, achievable steps. These techniques help set clear goals and build momentum through concrete tasks between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences, and will adjust strategies as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions use less bandwidth, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and access consistent support.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- New York, Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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