About Stuart
Stuart Marcus is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Florida. He has 35 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, and trauma. He also supports those facing relationship and family conflict, parenting strain, anger, bipolar challenges, and attention-related concerns like ADHD.
He aims to create an open, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk about difficult thoughts and feelings. Sessions focus on practical steps and real-life solutions that people can try between meetings.
Background and approach
He encourages honest conversation and steady progress at a pace that feels right for each person. With long experience in the field, Stuart draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide his work. He listens for patterns that keep problems stuck and helps people build new skills to respond differently.
He also pays attention to life events such as abandonment, adoption and foster care, caregiving stress, and adjustment to aging. People come to him for help with communication problems, codependency, commitment worries, body image, and coping after disasters. He also supports those dealing with personality-related challenges such as avoidant or antisocial tendencies and attachment difficulties.
The approach is steady and practical, focused on what will help most right now. Stuart works in English and is licensed in Florida and Illinois as an LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker. He welcomes international clients and offers multiple online formats to fit different schedules.
Approaches that shape online sessions
Stuart uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One approach emphasizes identifying unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and replacing them with more helpful responses; this helps with anxiety, depression, and stress. Another approach concentrates on building communication and coping skills to improve relationships and manage anger or family conflict.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, problems, and preferences, and then suggest strategies to try. That plan can be adjusted over time as progress is made or needs change.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into busy lives. Video works well for deeper conversations, phone is useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat can support shorter check-ins, and messaging helps keep momentum between sessions. These options help people connect from different locations and schedules while working on clear, practical steps.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- 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
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- 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
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Florida
- Languages
- English
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