About Marissa
Marissa Bracco is an LCSW with 15 years of experience who helps people manage anxiety, stress, trauma, and related concerns. She supports those facing depression, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting stress, ADHD, and a range of life changes. Marissa aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can begin to feel understood and less overwhelmed.
Her approach is warm and steady. She focuses on building rapport first so clients feel comfortable sharing what matters most to them.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and practical, with time spent identifying small, doable steps toward clearer thinking and calmer responses. Marissa blends client-centered care with cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness practices. That mix helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, try new behavior patterns, and practice calming skills between sessions.
She also uses solution-focused ideas to set short-term goals and track progress. Her background includes many years working in school settings and with children and families, and she has experience supporting people with ADHD, autism spectrum conditions, mood disorders, and trauma. That work shaped a flexible, problem-solving style that adapts to each person’s needs.
In sessions she collaborates on a treatment plan tailored to specific goals. Typical topics include managing panic or phobias, sleep and eating concerns, caregiver stress, career transitions, and communication or control issues. Marissa works from Florida and conducts therapy in English.
How Marissa Uses Talk Therapy Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the client's lead. The therapist creates a supportive space and helps people find their own solutions to problems like anxiety, relationship stress, or grief.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thought and behavior that keep problems going. It breaks issues down into manageable steps, helps people test new ways of thinking, and teaches coping skills for panic, phobias, sleep problems, and mood concerns.
Marissa will work with each person to decide which approach or combination feels most helpful. That decision is collaborative - she discusses goals, tries strategies, and adjusts plans based on what is working and what is not.
Online therapy makes it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. Video calls let people use face-to-face conversation when that matters. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or when being on camera is tiring. Live chat and text-based messaging allow short check-ins, quick coping reminders, or continued work between longer sessions. These options offer flexibility while keeping the focus on practical change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- 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
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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