About Marilyn
Marilyn Balke-Lowry helps adults and teens who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, or life changes. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with practical experience guiding people through relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, and self-esteem concerns. Her tone is direct and compassionate, aimed at someone taking a hesitant first step toward help.
She has worked in schools and independent practice over a 40-year career in Texas. That experience shapes how she talks with clients: plain language, steady pacing, and attention to everyday challenges.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what is happening now and what can change soon, with straightforward strategies to manage symptoms and relationships. In the counseling room she creates space for people to share thoughts and feelings without judgment. She listens for patterns that keep problems repeating and helps clients try different ways of responding.
Practical tools and realistic goals are part of each plan so progress can be measured and adjusted. Marilyn pays particular attention to issues tied to family history, attachment, and blended family stress. She also supports people facing chronic pain, illness, or the emotional shifts of midlife and aging.
Her approach balances empathy with clear behavioral steps. Starting therapy is framed as a collaborative process. Clients work together with her to set priorities and skills they can use between sessions.
The emphasis is on steady, manageable change rather than quick fixes.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Marilyn draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on changing thoughts and behaviors to reduce distress. One common approach emphasizes identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and practicing alternative responses; this helps with anxiety, low self-esteem, and stress. Another approach centers on building practical coping skills and problem-solving steps so people can handle daily challenges and life transitions more effectively.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Marilyn will work with each person to understand goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they will try methods, track progress, and adjust the plan when needed to find the best fit.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people keep face-to-face contact when that is important. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and work well for a focused conversation. Live chat and text-based messaging can fit short check-ins or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to continue care when travel or work makes in-person visits difficult.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English