About Marlene
Marlene Merchant is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York. She uses straightforward, practical methods to help people manage stress, anxiety, mood concerns, and struggles with addiction and eating. Her work focuses on small, useful steps that add up over time.
Marlene brings ten years of professional experience to her sessions. She relies on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking patterns. She also uses mindfulness to help clients calm their attention and motivational interviewing to find personal reasons for change.
Background and approach
In a typical session she helps clients set clear, achievable goals. She talks through coping tools for sleep, low mood, cravings, or worry. She also addresses relationship strains, grief, and questions about life direction in a practical way.
Marlene often supports people working through trauma, body image concerns, obsessions or compulsions, and compassion fatigue. She pays attention to how daily routines, self-care, and small habits influence mental health. The focus is on skills people can use between sessions.
Her approach is encouraging and goal-oriented. She explains techniques simply and checks in on progress each week. People who want concrete steps and a kind, steady guide may find this style helpful.
How her approaches work online
CBT focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Online CBT sessions help people spot unhelpful thinking and practice new responses to anxiety, depression, or compulsive behaviors. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices. These techniques are useful for managing worry, improving sleep, and calming the body during stressful moments. Motivational interviewing helps people find their own reasons to change. It is often used alongside other tools when someone feels stuck or uncertain about next steps. Marlene treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will talk with clients about goals and preferences, try techniques, and adjust plans based on what works. That collaboration helps shape a plan that fits each person’s life. Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule. Video calls are useful for face-to-face discussion, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, and text-based messaging or live chat can support brief check-ins or midweek practice. These options provide flexibility for people balancing work, family, or travel.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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