About MerraLee
MerraLee Block is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida with 35 years of experience. She focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family difficulties. Her style is practical and direct, aimed at making daily life feel more manageable.
She works with people who struggle with communication, control, boundaries, guilt, shame, and forgiveness. Much of her practice has centered on family conflict, parenting challenges, separation, divorce, and blended family issues.
Background and approach
Her background includes time spent as a Florida Supreme Court Family Law Mediator alongside clinical work. In sessions she treats each person as the expert on their life and looks for strengths to build on. Conversations tend to be straightforward and problem-focused, with an eye toward clearer communication and healthier boundaries.
She also addresses grief, intimacy concerns, and career- or life-change stressors. MerraLee supports people coping with trauma, abuse, and compassion fatigue, and she helps those navigating adoption, attachment, or abandonment issues. She also works with concerns such as body image, codependency, and commitment worries.
Clients who prefer remote care can connect by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. The first step is a brief intake and scheduling to match timing and preferences, and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Practical approaches for online family and relationship work
MerraLee uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on real-world change. One approach emphasizes improving communication and boundary-setting so people can express needs more clearly and reduce repeated conflict. Another approach concentrates on identifying harmful patterns - such as control, codependency, or avoidance - and replacing them with specific behaviors that lead to healthier interactions.Deciding which approach fits best is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, try strategies, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. Clients participate in shaping the work so it matches their pace and priorities.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and nonverbal feedback. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a session needs to fit into a short break. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, ongoing coaching, or when writing through thoughts is easier. These options make it simpler to maintain continuity of care around busy family and work schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- 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