About Marilyn
Marilyn Priebe is a licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of experience practicing in Louisiana. She focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship concerns. Marilyn emphasizes strengths and practical steps, and she encourages people who feel nervous about starting therapy to recognize that first step as positive.
Her work centers on listening first and then building on what the client already does well. She helps people name what feels hard and then breaks problems into manageable steps.
Background and approach
Sessions are straightforward and aimed at small, useful changes rather than jargon or lengthy theory. Marilyn has long experience supporting people after traumatic events, including trauma and abuse, post-traumatic stress, panic disorder, and phobias. She also helps with life transitions like divorce, caregiving for aging relatives, cancer-related concerns, and end-of-life decisions.
Practical coping skills and emotional pacing are common features of her approach. She often addresses patterns that come from family of origin, codependency, control issues, guilt, and shame. Parenting concerns and postpartum depression are also within her focus.
Marilyn draws on decades of practice to tailor support to each person’s situation and goals. Sessions are offered in English and delivered online by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. People who choose to begin are guided through a short matching questionnaire and scheduling process to find times that fit their life.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Marilyn uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on practical coping skills and gradual exposure to feared situations. Coping skills training teaches breathing, grounding, and thought-management techniques to reduce anxiety and improve day-to-day functioning. Gradual exposure helps people facing panic, phobias, or avoidance by building tolerance in small, manageable steps and practicing those steps between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Marilyn collaborates with clients to decide which techniques match their goals, needs, and comfort level, and adjusts the plan as progress is made. The process is guided by the client's priorities and paced to fit what they can handle.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video allows face-to-face interaction for skill demonstration and conversation. Phone works well when less bandwidth is available or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging can support quick check-ins, homework prompts, or ongoing skill practice between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue work when travel or distance would otherwise be a barrier.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Cancer
- Codependency
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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