About Marissa
Marissa Herrera is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Georgia. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed, anxious, stressed, or out of step with their lives. Her style is direct and collaborative, aimed at getting practical changes that matter day to day.
Marissa centers the work on the person's goals. She believes people lead their own change and uses short-term, goal-focused methods to get there. Sessions often include clear steps to try between meetings and ways to notice progress as it happens.
Background and approach
She draws on therapies that break problems into manageable parts. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and solution-focused ideas shape much of her work. Those approaches are used to identify unhelpful thoughts, build coping skills, and create daily routines that support recovery.
Marissa also uses motivational interviewing and EMDR when appropriate to address stuck patterns and past trauma. She emphasizes practical tools for stress, anxiety, depression, addiction concerns, and identity-related struggles. Parenting and career changes are common topics she helps people work through.
With eight years of experience in varied mental health settings, Marissa brings both steady support and concrete techniques. She offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit busy schedules. The focus is on clear steps, steady progress, and helping people reconnect with what matters to them.
How approaches like CBT, ACT, and EMDR translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It’s useful when anxiety or stress gets in the way of everyday priorities and helps build flexible ways of responding. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors. It often includes homework exercises and short experiments that reduce anxiety and improve mood. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is used to address distress tied to past events by working through traumatic memories in a structured way; it can reduce the intensity of upsetting memories for some people.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, symptoms, and what feels most comfortable. Together they choose methods and adjust them as needed so the work fits the client's needs and preferences.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and interactive exercises, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging allow brief check-ins or ongoing support between appointments. These options make it easier to fit care into a busy life and try methods in real-world settings.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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