About Marika
Marika Courtney is a licensed professional counselor clinical counselor (LPCC) working in Ohio. She brings ten years of experience guiding people through stress, anxiety, trauma, and major life changes. Her work centers on listening carefully and helping each person find practical steps forward.
Her style is warm and straightforward. Sessions focus on real problems and useful skills rather than labels. She uses a mix of approaches to meet people where they are and to support clearer thinking and healthier emotional responses.
Background and approach
Marika often helps people facing parenting strain, workplace pressure, and relationship communication problems. She also supports those dealing with substance concerns, grief, caregiving stress, and medical challenges such as cancer. She pays attention to how attachment patterns, abandonment issues, and personality traits shape everyday choices.
Therapy sessions blend talking, skill-building exercises, and reflection. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools may help with thought patterns and behavior. Emotion-focused and attachment-based work looks at how emotions and early bonds affect relationships now.
Her aim is to make therapy practical and manageable. She helps people create coping strategies, strengthen relationships, and move through difficult transitions. Marika works collaboratively to set goals and track progress in a way that fits each person’s life.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking committed action. In short online sessions this can mean naming what matters most and trying small behavior changes between meetings to see what helps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) centers on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new responses. It works well in video or phone sessions where homework and short exercises are assigned and reviewed together.Choosing an approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their goals, preferences, and day-to-day life. That means checking in, adjusting techniques, and combining elements from different approaches when needed.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues during deeper conversations, while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat and text are useful for brief check-ins, tracking progress, or handling quick concerns between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit consistent therapy into work and family schedules and to practice new skills in real time.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English