About Marissa
Marissa Savala is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Oklahoma who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and addiction. She uses a strengths-based, solution-focused mindset to help clients take practical steps toward their goals. Marissa aims to make the first step feel doable and supportive.
She keeps sessions direct and collaborative. Conversations focus on current problems, workable strategies, and small changes that add up. Marissa encourages people to notice what already works for them and build from there.
Background and approach
Her approach also draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify patterns of thought and behavior that keep problems going. She uses dialectical behavior ideas when emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills are needed. These methods are used in plain language and applied to everyday situations.
Marissa has nine years of professional experience as an LPC in Oklahoma. She has worked with a range of concerns including grief, anger, low self-esteem, compassion fatigue, and issues related to sexuality and prejudice. Her focus includes both immediate coping and longer-term wellbeing.
Sessions are paced to match each person's needs and goals. Marissa aims to create an open, nonjudgmental space where people can say what they mean and get practical, realistic next steps. She supports clients who want clear tools and steady encouragement as they make changes.
How therapy methods fit online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on a respectful, nonjudgmental conversation that lets the person lead. It helps when someone needs to be heard and to make their own decisions about change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to shift unhelpful patterns; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress.Choosing the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will work with each client to pick methods that match their goals and preferences. That means trying techniques, checking how they feel, and adjusting the plan together over time.
Online formats support flexible access to care. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and screen-sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send short updates, get quick coping ideas, or fit short sessions into a busy day. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing work, family, and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- LGBT
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
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