About Marissa
Marissa Copeland is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people facing anxiety, stress, low self-worth, and life changes. She focuses on practical steps that make day-to-day life easier to manage. Her manner is direct and respectful, with an emphasis on building self-esteem and clear goals.
She draws on a blend of client-centered and cognitive behavioral ideas to shape sessions. That means conversations start with what matters to the person, and then move toward changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative - the client and counselor set goals and try small, doable changes between meetings. With about 10 years of experience in counseling and clinical settings, she has worked with people dealing with depression, anxiety, ADHD, relationship strain, trauma, grief, and caregiving stress.
She also brings attention to issues like adoption and foster care, workplace stress, and identity concerns for LGBT clients. Marissa practices in Louisiana and holds LPC credentials in both Louisiana and Alabama. She emphasizes treating people with respect, sensitivity, and compassion while avoiding stigmatizing labels.
Her work often weaves self-esteem and empowerment into therapy, not as a separate topic but as part of addressing each concern. Her sessions aim to help clients recognize patterns that hold them back and to try new ways of thinking and acting.
She values authenticity and works to create a calm, straightforward space for people to talk through problems and plan steps forward.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding each person's perspective and building a trusting working relationship. It helps when someone needs a nonjudgmental space to sort through feelings and decide what matters most.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and tests small changes to reduce anxiety and low mood. It is practical and often includes exercises between sessions to try new ways of thinking and acting.
Solution-focused therapy zeroes in on immediate goals and workable steps rather than long histories. It is useful for people who want quick strategies to move past a problem or to tackle specific life changes.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences and will adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions can include video calls, phone meetings, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and comfort levels. Video is good for a full session with face-to-face interaction, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, and messaging allows short check-ins or ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or busy days.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana, Alabama
- Languages
- English
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