About Marianne
Marianne Auger uses practical, evidence-based therapy to help people manage stress, anxiety, anger, and life changes. She is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) based in Massachusetts with 16 years of clinical experience. Marianne keeps sessions direct and compassionate so people can make steady progress toward clearer goals.
She combines cognitive behavioral techniques with acceptance and commitment ideas to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values.
Background and approach
Her client-centered stance means conversations are guided by the person's priorities and pace. She also draws on dialectical behavior skills for emotion regulation and mindfulness tools for grounding. Marianne has led group programs such as anger management, DBT skills groups, and mindfulness classes.
Those experiences shape how she structures sessions, teaching skills and offering step-by-step practice. She adapts techniques to everyday life so people can use new skills between meetings. Her work covers a broad range of concerns including depression, coping with life transitions, grief, addictions, sleep and eating difficulties, bipolar challenges, trauma and post-traumatic stress, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem.
She also addresses caregiver stress, chronic illness, autism spectrum questions, and identity-related concerns including gender dysphoria. Marianne offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging. She supports people in exploring goals, building coping skills, and making changes that fit their routines and values.
How her approach and online sessions work together
Marianne blends cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy into practical online sessions. CBT focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors, which helps with anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating concerns. ACT emphasizes noticing thoughts and values-based action so people can move forward even when hard feelings remain.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Marianne will talk with each person about goals and preferences, and together they decide which techniques to try first. She adjusts pace and tools over time based on what helps most, so therapy stays useful and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit into a short break and use less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging work well for quick check-ins, ongoing coaching, or when someone prefers written conversation. These options aim to make therapy flexible and easier to fit into daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Depression
Also works with
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- 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
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts, Washington
- Languages
- English