About Marylou
Marylou Biasotto is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in Delaware with 28 years of experience. She helps people who struggle with anxiety, stress, trauma, grief, depression, and life changes. She also addresses relationship and intimacy concerns, sleep problems, parenting strain, and challenges related to self-esteem, career, and caregiving fatigue.
Marylou offers practical, straightforward sessions. She uses mindfulness and cognitive behavioral tools to help people notice patterns and try new behaviors.
Background and approach
She may integrate hypnotherapy when it seems helpful and uses solution-focused techniques to set and reach short-term goals. Her background includes work in independent practice and community mental health, as well as experience with correctional settings and international projects. That variety shaped a flexible approach to different life situations and stressors.
She emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and a calm, steady presence in sessions. Sessions begin with listening to what matters most to the client. Together they shape a plan that fits the person’s day-to-day life.
Marylou tends to keep language plain and actions practical, focusing on small steps that lead to clearer thinking and better coping. She supports people through chronic health concerns, bereavement, codependency, first responder issues, immigration-related stress, gender dysphoria, and end-of-life matters. Her goal is to help clients find manageable ways to reduce distress and improve functioning over time.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Marylou draws on cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness-based methods to help people shift unhelpful thinking and build steady routines. CBT focuses on identifying and changing thought and behavior patterns that contribute to anxiety or depression. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple awareness and grounding practices to reduce reactivity and improve sleep and concentration.She may also incorporate hypnotherapy interventions when appropriate to support relaxation, reduce symptoms like insomnia, or reinforce new habits. These techniques are offered as tools within a broader plan rather than standalone promises of change.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. She collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and daily schedule. If something doesn’t fit, she will adjust the plan and try different strategies together.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different situations. Video is useful for fuller conversation and visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat or text works for quick check-ins or shorter coaching-style contacts. These options make scheduling more flexible and let people continue work between sessions with brief messaging support.
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What this therapist works with
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- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Delaware
- Languages
- English
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