About Marquia
Marquia Rivers is a licensed mental health counselor in New York who focuses on stress and anxiety. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed, struggling with low self-esteem, or dealing with depression. Her tone is respectful and compassionate, and she aims to make first steps feel manageable for people who are nervous about starting therapy.
She offers straightforward conversations and tailors a plan to each person's needs. Sessions focus on practical strategies and steady progress.
Background and approach
Marquia listens for patterns that keep problems going and helps clients try small changes that can make daily life easier. Her work also covers relationship strain, trauma and abuse, and challenges tied to attachment or abandonment. She supports people facing issues with substance use, eating and food-related concerns, and the stresses of caregiving.
Marquia pays attention to how multiple problems can overlap and affect each other. Marquia has six years of clinical experience as an LMHC - Licensed Mental Health Counselor. She practices in New York and uses clear language rather than clinical jargon.
Her approach is patient and goal-focused, with an emphasis on building confidence and coping skills. People who choose to work with her can expect a collaborative pace. She will outline options, check in about what is working, and adjust plans as needed.
The aim is steady, practical support that fits into a person's life.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Marquia commonly uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on real-world change. One approach emphasizes teaching coping skills for anxiety and stress so people can handle day-to-day triggers more easily; this involves practicing breathing, grounding, and manageable behavior changes. Another approach looks at relationship and attachment patterns to help someone understand how past hurts affect present connections and communication.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped in the past. From there they will try techniques that match the person’s needs and adjust them over time based on feedback.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, which makes it easier to fit sessions into a busy week. Video calls allow deeper conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is low, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and messaging is useful for ongoing support between sessions. These options provide flexibility so therapy can work around work, caregiving, and other life demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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