- Warm collaborative style
- Practical coping skills
- Creative therapeutic tools
About Marcia
Marcia Blake is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 17 years of experience. She focuses on helping people through stressful life changes, anxiety, depression, grief, and issues related to relationships and codependency. Her style is warm and practical, and she builds a working connection with each person before making a plan.
She has worked in residential programs, community mental health, and private practice. That background means she has experience with individual and group work and with people coping with mood disorders, trauma, substance use, and caregiving strain. Marcia believes clients are the experts on their own lives and centers their voice in sessions.
Her approach blends several evidence-based strategies, including cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, and acceptance and commitment therapy. She often adds attachment-based and client-centered ideas to address relationship patterns and self-worth. Creative tools like journaling, poetry, art, and music may be used when they fit a person’s goals.
In sessions she aims to increase self-awareness and to identify the beliefs that keep someone stuck. Together with each person she looks at triggers, builds coping skills, and practices steps that lead to change. The focus is on concrete tools and small, manageable shifts.
People who want a collaborative therapist who listens first and then offers practical strategies often find her approach helpful. Those who are navigating loss, chronic stress, parenting strain, or patterns of people-pleasing and codependency may find the work particularly relevant. To begin, follow the site's intake steps and schedule a matching session.
How therapeutic approaches shape online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without letting them dictate actions. It focuses on values-based steps that move a person toward what matters to them, which can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thought patterns and behaviors that maintain distress and teaches concrete skills to change them. It’s useful for panic, persistent worry, low mood, and rebuilding daily routines.
Attachment-Based Therapy attends to relationship patterns from early history and how they show up now. This approach helps people understand connection and codependency patterns, and supports healthier ways of relating to others.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Marcia will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and day-to-day needs and together they will choose methods that fit. That collaborative process helps shape what happens in sessions and what skills are practiced between meetings.
Session logistics vary by therapist and region, so confirm available online options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, allow for shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time so more consistent work can happen. Many people find that using therapy tools at home between sessions speeds progress and helps translate new habits into daily life.
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Experience
17+ years
Credentials
Michigan, Texas
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does she address?
Marcia helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship struggles, codependency, and related issues such as trauma, substance use, and parenting strain.
What is her therapy style like?
She uses a practical, collaborative style that emphasizes rapport and the client’s own expertise. Sessions typically focus on building self-awareness and developing concrete skills.
What background does she bring to therapy?
Marcia has 17 years of experience working in residential settings, community mental health, and private practice with both groups and individuals.
What are her credentials and location?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, practicing in Texas with licensure noted as MI LPC and TX LPC.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the U.S. work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How does payment work?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I get started?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
Profile details come from information the therapist supplied to BetterHelp. Credential and registration rules differ between the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia.