About Marissa
Marissa Bracco is an LCSW with more than 15 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She provides a calm, welcoming presence and focuses on building rapport from the first meeting. Her approach is neutral and nonjudgmental, so people can speak openly about what worries them.
Much of her career was spent working in schools and supporting children and families through tough transitions. She has experience with depression, ADHD, autism spectrum concerns, and mood disorders, and has helped people who have faced trauma, abuse, or financial strain.
Background and approach
Marissa blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral techniques. She also brings mindfulness into sessions when it suits a person's needs. Treatment plans are tailored to the individual and focus on the goals the person wants to achieve.
Common areas she addresses include relationships, family issues, grief, intimacy concerns, sleep and eating struggles, and coping with life changes. She also supports people dealing with career stress, compassion fatigue, and self-esteem challenges. Her style is practical and straightforward.
Sessions often involve talking through patterns, developing small experiments to try between meetings, and practicing mindful skills that can be used in daily life. Marissa aims to help people feel more capable of handling anxiety and the other challenges they bring to therapy.
How therapeutic approaches fit into online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience. The therapist reflects what is said, helps people explore their feelings, and supports their own solutions; this approach is useful for anxiety, grief, and relationship concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior. Sessions often include identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and trying small behavioral experiments to reduce anxiety or lift mood. CBT is practical for worry, low mood, and many everyday problems.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple awareness practices to help reduce reactivity and calm the mind. Short, guided exercises can be used between sessions to manage stress and improve sleep.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. Sessions adapt over time as progress is made or goals change.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when internet bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and text messaging supports brief reflections between meetings. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy days and keep continuity during life transitions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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