About Marci
Marci Sturgeon-Rusiewicz is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania with 15 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, everyday stress, and relationship or family concerns. Marci aims to create an open setting where clients can speak honestly about thoughts and feelings without judgment.
Her work centers on practical tools to manage symptoms and improve daily functioning. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) techniques to help people notice unhelpful thinking patterns and try different behaviors.
Background and approach
She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills to support emotional regulation and coping during stressful moments. Marci has worked in community behavioral health, college counseling centers, and independent practice. That mix of settings gives her experience with a broad range of life situations and needs.
She often helps people who struggle with attachment or abandonment concerns, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and body image issues. Sessions focus on achievable steps, clear goals, and building skills clients can use between meetings. Marci supports people as they try new strategies and adjust plans when needed.
She emphasizes collaboration and respects each person’s pace and priorities. Marci accepts international clients and conducts sessions in English. To start, she asks people to complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule a session based on therapist availability.
Evidence-based techniques for online care
Marci uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and test new, more helpful behaviors. CBT often focuses on specific, manageable steps to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms. She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness strategies that can reduce overwhelm and improve relationships.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Marci collaborates with each person to identify goals, try approaches, and adjust methods based on what fits best. She helps clients weigh which skills to practice between sessions and how to apply them in daily life.
Session formats are not listed in the biography, so confirm available options before booking. Many people find online therapy helps fit meetings into a busy week, reduces travel time, and makes scheduling around work or caregiving easier. Online sessions can allow for shorter check-ins when needed or full therapy sessions when more time is required, helping therapy fit into everyday routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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