About Stuart
Stuart Marcus is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 35 years of experience. He helps people manage stress and anxiety and addresses relationship and family concerns in a straightforward way. He offers calm, nonjudgmental support to people taking the first steps toward change.
Stuart listens closely to what matters most to each person. He creates space for clients to talk about trauma, abuse, depression, addictions, parenting strain, anger, bipolar challenges, and ADHD.
Background and approach
He also works on issues like abandonment, attachment concerns, adoption and foster care matters, and caregiver stress. Sessions focus on clear conversation and practical steps. Stuart helps people identify immediate coping strategies for intense feelings and then builds longer-term plans.
He pays attention to communication patterns, commitment and control issues, and how daily routines affect mental health. With decades of experience across Illinois and Florida, he draws on a wide range of evidence-based therapeutic techniques. That means using methods that have been shown to help with anxiety, trauma recovery, mood management, and addiction-related behavior.
He adapts his approach to each persons needs rather than relying on a single set of tools. Stuart welcomes people who prefer working online or by phone. He acknowledges that starting therapy takes courage and helps clients move at a pace that feels manageable.
He guides practical next steps and supports clients as they try new skills between sessions.
Evidence-based approaches for online care
Stuart uses a range of evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on concrete skills and recovery. One common approach emphasizes learning coping skills for anxiety and stress, such as breathing, grounding, and activity planning to reduce worry and overwhelm. These techniques help when anxious thoughts or panic interfere with daily life.Another approach centers on trauma-informed work and mood management, which looks at how past events affect current reactions and helps build strategies to manage strong emotions. This work often includes pacing, safety planning, and gradual exposure to difficult memories or triggers when a person is ready.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Stuart collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, comfort, and daily demands. He adjusts plans over time and checks in about what is and isnt helpful.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let most people use face-to-face conversation without travel. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to get ongoing support between sessions and to fit therapy around a busy schedule.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- 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
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Florida
- Languages
- English
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