About MerraLee
MerraLee Block is a Florida-licensed mental health counselor with 35 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, family conflict, or life changes. Her approach is straightforward and respectful, aimed at helping clients find practical ways to feel better and gain control.
She pays attention to communication, boundaries, and control patterns that often keep problems going. She also works with people coping with guilt, shame, and the need for forgiveness.
Background and approach
Many clients come to her for help navigating separation, divorce, blended family challenges, or parenting strain. Block spent several years serving as a Florida Supreme Court Family Law Mediator alongside her therapy practice. That background gives her extra experience handling tense conversations and practical problem solving.
She uses that experience to help people sort out relationships and make clearer choices. In sessions she treats clients as the experts on their own lives and looks for strengths to build on. The work is collaborative and paced to fit each person's needs and goals.
She aims to support people through the change process with practical steps and steady encouragement. Her practice also addresses issues such as trauma and abuse, ADHD, grief, career stress, intimacy concerns, and compassion fatigue. She offers counseling in English and works from Florida as a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC).
Evidence-informed approaches for online care
MerraLee uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and improved communication. One common approach helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and patterns, then replace them with clearer thinking and more effective actions to ease anxiety and depression. Another approach centers on improving communication and boundary-setting, which can reduce family conflict and help with separation or blended family stress.Finding the right approach is part of the therapy work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences and will adjust the plan as progress is made. This keeps the work relevant and tailored to real-life challenges.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a brief check-in, and messaging fits people who prefer shorter or written exchanges. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep continuity when life is unpredictable.
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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
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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