About Marquita
Marquita Wooley is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 17 years of experience. She helps people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, or low self-esteem. Her approach is warm and person-focused and she aims to make the first step feel manageable.
She draws on a mix of therapeutic methods to match each person's needs. Marquita uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice difficult thoughts and try new behaviors.
Background and approach
She also uses Client-Centered and Emotionally-Focused methods to create a respectful, listening space where people can sort through strong feelings. Her background includes work across community mental health, hospitals, residential settings, and outpatient programs. That range of settings informs how she structures sessions for people coming from varied circumstances.
Marquita has experience supporting military members, veterans, and civilians and brings attention to multicultural factors in care. Sessions focus on practical skills along with exploring meaning and values. Typical work includes managing stress, building coping strategies for anxiety, processing grief, and strengthening self-worth.
She adapts tools to fit each person's pace and goals. Marquita is licensed as an LPC in Alabama and Texas and speaks English. She frames therapy as a collaborative process and aims to help people find clearer direction and more manageable daily routines.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then commit to actions that reflect their values; it is often used for anxiety and stress. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying patterns of thinking that fuel distress and practicing concrete behavior changes to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes empathetic listening and building a trusting therapeutic relationship so people feel understood and can explore issues at their own pace.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped before. From that conversation she tailors methods and checks in regularly to make adjustments so the plan fits the client's needs.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow a fuller conversation similar to an in-person meeting, phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging can support shorter check-ins or ongoing skill practice between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy around school, work, caregiving, or other responsibilities while keeping the focus on progress and practical tools.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Alabama
- Languages
- English
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