About Marci
Marci Zago is a licensed mental health counselor with 14 years of clinical experience. She practices as an LMHC and a Licensed Professional Counselor and focuses on helping adults manage anxiety, stress, burnout, and low self-esteem. Her style is down-to-earth and practical, aimed at people who want clear tools and gentle guidance to feel steadier in day-to-day life.
Many people come to her feeling outwardly functional but inwardly drained or uncertain.
Background and approach
Sessions are a place to talk honestly, name what’s overwhelming, and build small habits that make a real difference. Marci helps clients find calmer routines, clearer priorities, and more confidence in making changes. Her work often centers on life transitions, workplace strain, and lingering effects of trauma and abuse.
She also supports concerns like relationship stress, caregiver burden, family-of-origin issues, and struggles with eating or sense of purpose. Treatment focuses on practical coping skills and understanding patterns that keep people stuck. Marci takes a collaborative approach that blends compassion with structure.
She listens closely, helps set achievable goals, and teaches skills that can be used between sessions. The aim is steady progress rather than quick fixes. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented.
Marci encourages questions and checks in about what’s helping and what isn’t. People leave with specific strategies to manage stress, boost self-esteem, and navigate transitions with more clarity.
Approaches and Online Care That Fit Your Life
Marci uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and relief. One common approach is skills-based work that teaches concrete tools for managing anxiety and daily stress - breathing, activity planning, and problem-solving strategies to reduce overwhelm. Another approach focuses on processing trauma and its effects by helping people understand how past events shape current reactions and by building steps to feel safer and more in control. These methods are aimed at increasing coping skills, emotional regulation, and clearer decision-making.Finding the right approach is part of the work. She collaborates with each person to identify goals and then tries methods that match those goals and preferences. Sessions include regular check-ins about what helps and what needs adjustment so the plan can change as progress happens.
Online therapy offers flexibility and makes it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. Video calls let people connect face-to-face when a longer conversation is needed. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or when being off-camera feels easier. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, skill reminders, or short emotional supports between longer sessions. These options help people stay consistent with care while balancing work, family, and other responsibilities.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Indiana, Illinois, Nebraska, Texas
- Languages
- English