About Marsha
Marsha Hicks (Richards) is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 21 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, mood changes, addiction concerns, grief, and relationship strain. Her approach centers on listening carefully and working with each person to find practical steps they can use every day.
She earned a Master’s Degree in Social Work from Stony Brook University School of Social Welfare and has practiced in both inpatient and outpatient settings.
Background and approach
That background gives her experience with a wide range of challenges, including co-occurring mental health and substance use concerns. In sessions she draws from multiple approaches and keeps the person’s strengths at the center. She uses techniques from cognitive behavioral work to identify unhelpful thoughts and from dialectical behavior approaches to build skills for emotional regulation.
Attachment-based ideas guide understanding of how important relationships shape current patterns. Marsha favors straightforward, human-centered care. She helps people set small goals, try new coping skills, and track what works.
She also supports those facing parenting stress, sleep problems, anger, and life transitions. She practices in Florida and communicates in English. Many clients appreciate her steadiness and practical focus when dealing with complex concerns like trauma, dissociation, bipolar challenges, and caring for aging relatives.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Attachment-based work looks at how early and current relationships shape feelings and behavior. It helps people understand patterns in close relationships and reduce worry about connection. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting and changing thought patterns that fuel anxiety and low mood, and it includes simple exercises to try between sessions. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving communication during conflicts.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about symptoms, goals, and what feels most helpful. Together they try methods, track what helps, and adjust the plan over time so the work fits the individual’s needs.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls are useful for in-depth conversations with visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed, and live chat or text messaging are good for brief support between sessions or for people who prefer typed communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep consistent progress.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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