About Marisa
Marisa Levin is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor working with people who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or trapped in repeating patterns. She meets clients who struggle with anxiety, stress, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, and self-esteem concerns. Her manner is straightforward and compassionate, aiming to help people make practical change rather than only talk about problems.
Marisa takes a direct but warm approach. She helps people look at the thoughts and behaviors that keep them stuck.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on building insight and practicing tools that fit everyday life. She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques and adapts them to each person's needs. With five years of clinical experience, Marisa draws on a mix of methods to address issues such as abandonment and attachment concerns, body image, caregiver stress, codependency, communication and control problems, and substance use challenges.
She also works with people facing divorce, separation, dissociation, and mood regulation struggles. Therapy with her balances support and challenge. She offers clear, practical steps alongside emotional understanding.
Clients can expect sessions that emphasize progress they can use between appointments. Marisa practices in Florida as an FL LMHC. Sessions are offered in English and delivered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, with scheduling handled through a short intake and matching process.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Marisa uses a few evidence-based approaches in her online work, explained in plain terms. Cognitive behavioral approaches help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different actions to reduce anxiety or low mood. This approach focuses on small experiments and skills people can practice between sessions.Acceptance and commitment style work helps people identify values and take meaningful action even when uncomfortable feelings are present. It can be useful for managing ongoing stress, commitment or control issues, and patterns that feel stuck. Solution-focused techniques keep sessions goal-oriented and practical, concentrating on steps that make daily life easier and more manageable.
Choosing the right mix is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about what feels most useful, try approaches in session, and adjust based on results and preferences. That means the plan evolves with the client's needs and goals, not set from the start.
Online therapy through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging offers flexibility. Video sessions let people work face-to-face when that helps; phone calls can fit into a break or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging can be helpful for brief check-ins, in-the-moment support, or when a shorter exchange is needed. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care around work, family, and life demands.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English