About Marissa
Marissa O'Connor is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people managing stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She focuses on practical ways to cope with daily pressures, grief, relationship strain, and parenting challenges. Her style is warm and nonjudgmental and aimed at helping clients feel steadier and more capable.
She draws on a strengths-based outlook to help people notice what already works in their lives. Sessions are tailored to each person, with clear steps and tools to try between meetings.
Background and approach
That might mean learning breathing and grounding skills, breaking big problems into manageable parts, or changing unhelpful thinking patterns. Her work also covers issues like body image, eating and sleeping problems, compassion fatigue, and obsessive or impulsive behaviors. She has experience supporting people after exposure to violence, disasters, or sudden life changes.
Marissa pays attention to both immediate coping and longer-term goals so clients can build routines that last. With seven years of experience, she practices in New York and brings a compassionate, practical approach to care. Marissa uses methods such as client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral work, dialectical behavior skills, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing.
She meets people where they are and helps them set realistic steps toward feeling better. People who choose her often want straightforward tools, clear planning, and a supportive space to practice new habits. The work is collaborative and paced to each person's needs and daily life.
Therapeutic methods for online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the person. It helps people feel heard and guides sessions around their goals and values. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches specific skills to reduce anxiety and change unhelpful patterns. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, includes practical skills for managing intense emotions, improving relationships, and tolerating distress.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to try methods that fit their needs and goals. Over time approaches are adjusted based on what helps most, so clients help shape their own care plan.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for skills practice and deeper check-ins. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging can support shorter check-ins, homework prompts, or coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to use tools that match how someone likes to communicate.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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