About Me

Hi, I'm Marissa. I'm passionate about helping others on their own healing journey through life's challenges. As a clinical psychologist, I specialize in working with young adults ages 21-30 struggling with anxiety and depression. I offer concrete feedback and evidence based skills grounded in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help you feel empowered through major life transitions and obstacles.

I understand and appreciate the unique stressors that young adults face such as relationship and family issues, starting a career, social anxiety, or balancing work with personal responsibilities. Early adulthood can feel overwhelming at times and I offer a safe space to talk about it.

Services

Individual Therapy

I offer one on one individual therapy sessions in person and virtually. Virtual therapy is available through a HIPAA compliant video platform. An initial intake session will help determine your goals for treatment. Sessions are typically 50 minutes. Duration of treatment is determined by individual needs and goals.

If interested you can schedule a free 15 minute phone consultation to see if we are a good match to continue working together.

Treatment

Specializing in treatment for anxiety and depression with young adults ages 21-30

Anxiety

Anxiety can look like overthinking situations, worrying about the past, or anticipating the future. We all experience anxious thoughts, but sometimes anxiety can manifest in uncomfortable physical symptoms and become so overbearing that it interferes with daily life activities. High levels of anxiety may interfere with your social life, school performance, work, sports, and overall enjoyment in life. I offer evidence based strategies to help you change your relationship with anxiety so you can be more present during activities that you enjoy.

Depression

Depression can occur for many reasons based on an individual's current circumstances and background. You may be struggling with depression if most days you feel sad, hopeless, and no longer enjoy activities you once enjoyed. We can work together to identify thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that may be contributing to depressive symptoms. During therapy, you can learn how to replace behaviors that are keeping you in a depressed mood with alternative healthy behaviors, such as personal hygiene, exercising, going for walks, or asking for help.

Additional Areas of Focus

Stress Management & Self-Care

Stress is an inevitable part of life that helps us take action or perform in our daily lives. Stress is problematic when it grows beyond a manageable threshold, it becomes chronic, and our bodies experience physical symptoms such as chronic pain, stomachaches, or frequent illness. Consistent self-care can help prevent the negative effects of chronic stress. Self-care is not just getting your nails done or putting on a face mask at the end of a tough day. Self-care is a consistent practice of intentionally caring for oneself on many dimensions including physical, spiritual, emotional, psychological, and professional, all of which can be explored in therapy sessions.

Grief/Loss

You may have experienced a significant loss in your life, whether recent or in the past, that is impacting you now. A loss can include the death of a loved one, a breakup, end of friendship, moving to a new town, or beginning a new phase of life such as graduating college. All of these experiences may precipitate the grieving process because you have lost something or someone that you love. Grief does not come in predictable stages and it may look different for everyone. I can help you process the feelings you have surrounding the loss, while you continue to live a valued life that is meaningful to you.

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