About MerraLee
MerraLee Block is a licensed mental health counselor with 35 years of practice in Florida. She focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, relationship strain, parenting challenges, and changes like separation or divorce. Her manner is direct and steady, aimed at helping clients take practical steps that improve daily life.
She pays close attention to communication, boundaries, and control issues. She also addresses shame, guilt, forgiveness, and struggles around intimacy.
Background and approach
Many clients seeking help for family conflict or blended family concerns find her background relevant to practical problem solving. MerraLee spent several years serving as a Florida Supreme Court Family Law Mediator while maintaining her therapy practice. That work shaped how she talks about conflict and negotiation in sessions.
She often helps people sort through what they want to change and what they can control in relationships and family roles. Her approach centers on treating clients as the experts on their own lives. She looks for existing strengths and uses them as starting points for change.
Sessions tend to focus on clear goals, small steps, and strategies that can be tried between meetings. People who choose her often want straightforward guidance and a steady presence during difficult transitions. She offers several online formats so work can fit into busy schedules.
MerraLee aims to help clients rebuild joy, steady their routines, and strengthen communication over time.
Practical approaches and flexible online care
MerraLee uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear communication and problem solving. One common approach helps people identify unhelpful patterns in their relationships and practice new ways of speaking and setting boundaries; this is useful for conflict, blended family issues, and intimacy concerns. Another emphasis is on coping strategies for stress and anxiety that include simple behavioral steps and routines to reduce overwhelm and improve daily functioning.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to identify goals, try methods that fit their life, and adjust techniques based on results and preferences. Clients are invited to give feedback so sessions stay practical and aligned with what they want to change.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care flexible. Video calls let people work face-to-face when interaction matters. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support ongoing work between appointments and are useful for brief updates or coping prompts. These options help therapy fit around work, parenting, and daily routines.
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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
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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