About Marianne
Marianne Williams is a licensed counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and addictions. She guides people through relationship and intimacy concerns, low self-esteem, anger, career questions, and major life changes. Marianne works to make the first steps feel manageable for anyone feeling overwhelmed.
She uses practical conversation and skills practice in sessions. Marianne believes each person knows their story best and builds on existing strengths. She focuses on small, useful changes that make a day feel easier and more within control.
Background and approach
Her approach blends cognitive behavioral techniques with mindfulness and acceptance strategies. That mix helps people notice unhelpful thinking, test new behaviors, and stay grounded when emotions run high. Marianne also draws from client-centered care to keep sessions clear and focused on the person’s priorities.
With 14 years of experience and an LPCC credential, she has worked with many people facing addiction, mood shifts, and relationship strain. Marianne pays attention to practical steps for coping, from managing impulses to rebuilding trust and setting boundaries. She tailors the pace and tools to each person's goals.
Sessions aim to build skills for handling stress, reduce symptoms that interfere with work or family life, and support better decision making. Marianne encourages honest, down-to-earth conversations and steady progress over time.
How specific approaches come alive online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then focus on values-based steps they can take. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking patterns and testing small behavior changes that lead to relief in daily life. It often helps with anxiety, low mood, and addiction-related behaviors. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase calm in stressful moments.Finding the right blend of approaches is part of the work. Marianne will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. Together they’ll try tools, check what helps, and adjust the plan based on what feels useful.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people keep visual connection and body language for in-depth sessions. Phone sessions work when bandwidth or camera use is limited, and they can be easier to fit into a short break. Live chat and text-based messaging provide ongoing check-ins, quick coping reminders, and a flexible way to stay connected between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to use different formats as needs change.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English