About Marylise
Marylise Zwarts is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 25 years of experience. She helps people who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or anxious and want practical change. Her work often focuses on relationship pain, trauma, grief, addictions, and stress-related issues.
She uses a collaborative, straightforward style in sessions. Conversations stay focused on what matters to the client. She helps people notice patterns, try different ways of coping, and build small skills that make daily life easier.
Background and approach
Marylise has practiced in multiple countries and worked in a range of settings. That background includes community organizations, residential addiction programs, and independent practice in Florida and abroad. Her varied experience shaped a practical approach to common problems like sleep difficulties, low self-esteem, and intense anger.
Therapy combines talking with targeted, action-oriented steps. Sessions may address attachment and abandonment wounds, family of origin issues, codependency, and communication problems. She also supports people facing caregiving stress, career transitions, and recovery from domestic violence or other traumatic events.
Sessions are offered in English and French and are available online for people living inside or outside the United States. Marylise emphasizes steady progress so clients can build independence, clearer choices, and a stronger sense of self.
Approaches and how online therapy works
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and following the client’s pace to build trust and clarity; it helps people who feel misunderstood or unsure about their next steps. Psychodynamic therapy looks at repeated patterns and early relationships to help explain current difficulties, which can be useful for attachment issues, abandonment concerns, and long-standing relationship struggles. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is a trauma-focused method that addresses disturbing memories and intense reactions by combining talk with structured processing techniques.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then try methods that fit the person’s needs. Adjustments are made along the way based on progress and comfort level.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video allows face-to-face conversation when bandwidth permits. Phone sessions work well for shorter check-ins or when a camera isn’t preferred. Live chat and text-based messaging can fit into busy schedules and support ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel demands while keeping treatment focused and consistent.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, French
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