About Marsha
Dr. Marsha Chase is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Pennsylvania with eight years of clinical experience. She has worked in homes, schools, residential programs, and outpatient settings.
People contact her for help with anxiety, depression, relationship trouble, parenting strain, trauma, and attachment disruptions. Her approach is warm and interactive. She aims to listen carefully and treat each person with genuine respect.
Sessions focus on getting to know the person and building a plan that fits their life and goals.
Background and approach
Dr. Chase blends humanistic and client-centered methods with cognitive-behavioral tools. She also draws on acceptance and commitment strategies and skills from dialectical behavior therapy when they fit.
The work often combines talking through patterns, practicing new behaviors, and building coping skills for everyday stress. She often helps people manage strong emotions, process traumatic experiences, and repair attachment injuries. Practical skill building is a common focus - for example learning ways to notice thoughts, tolerate distress, and improve communication.
She also supports people facing grief, career changes, caregiving strain, and the challenges of living with mood or attention differences. Therapy with Dr. Chase is collaborative.
She partners with each person to set clear, achievable goals and to track progress over time. Her aim is to help people feel more capable of handling life’s ups and downs and to strengthen relationships that matter to them.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Dr. Chase commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based approaches alongside client-centered care. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them while choosing actions that match your values; it can help with anxiety, stress, and getting unstuck. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and helps people rebuild trust and communication in important relationships. Client-Centered Therapy prioritizes genuine listening and respect so people feel heard and can explore what matters most to them.Choosing the right approach is collaborative. She will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then recommend methods to try. It’s normal to adjust the plan over time based on what helps most, and the therapist will review progress together with the client.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls let you work face-to-face when you want visual connection. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat or text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, meal-time pauses, or ongoing skill practice between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule regular work on anxiety, relationships, and coping skills from different locations.
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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
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- 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)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- 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
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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