About Marissa
Marissa Copeland is a Licensed Professional Counselor who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, and major life changes. She draws on a decade of experience to create steady, practical support that meets people where they are. Many come for help with grief, relationship struggles, parenting strain, or burnout.
Others look for guidance around ADHD, career decisions, or finding purpose. Her style is down-to-earth and team-oriented. Sessions center on the client's goals and everyday challenges.
Background and approach
Marissa combines clear, skills-based techniques with open, respectful listening. She avoids stigmatizing labels and treats people with sensitivity and compassion. In practice she mixes client-centered work with cognitive-behavioral ideas.
That means building a trusting relationship first, then looking at thought patterns and behaviors to find what can change. Solution-focused steps are used to set small, doable goals and track progress. Marissa has worked in both counseling and clinical settings across Louisiana and Alabama.
Over ten years she has supported people facing mood concerns, trauma and abuse, and caregiving stress. She also brings experience with adoption and foster care related issues and women's health topics. Clients can expect straightforward feedback, practical coping tools, and a focus on self-esteem and empowerment.
Treatment plans are tailored to each person's needs and adjusted as progress is made. Marissa aims to help people move toward a better quality of life in ways that feel realistic and sustainable.
How her approaches work in online sessions
Marissa uses client-centered work to build a trusting relationship and understand what matters most to the client. That means sessions begin with listening and reflecting so people feel heard before moving to problem solving. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety, depression, and unhelpful habits. Solution-Focused Therapy zeroes in on small, concrete steps and quick wins to move toward the client's goals.Picking the right approach is part of the work together. Marissa collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, preferences, and day-to-day life. She checks in regularly and adjusts the plan if something isn't helping or if priorities change.
Online formats make it easier to connect consistently. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction for deeper conversations and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits the day. Live chat and text-based messaging give flexibility for brief updates, homework check-ins, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options help people fit therapy into busy routines and keep progress moving forward.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana, Alabama
- Languages
- English