About Marissa
Marissa Herrera welcomes people who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or ready for change. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor with eight years of experience and works with individuals facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, addictions, and identity concerns. Her style is straightforward and goal-oriented, with an emphasis on practical steps someone can use between sessions.
Marissa sees therapy as a collaborative process. She helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, name values that matter to them, and try small experiments to shift behavior.
Background and approach
She uses tools from cognitive behavioral work and acceptance-oriented methods to reduce distress and build more workable habits. Her practice also includes approaches for processing difficult memories and motivation-based techniques to support change. Those methods can be helpful for people coping with trauma, bipolar symptoms, or trouble managing substances and impulses.
Marissa gives clear options and helps clients pick what fits their goals. She pays attention to identity and cultural issues, including LGBT and gender questions, and supports people dealing with parenting strain, relationship and intimacy concerns, and career or life transitions. Sessions focus on steps the person can take now, not abstract theory.
Marissa provides sessions from Georgia and conducts work in English. She offers a mix of video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different needs and schedules.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Marissa uses cognitive behavioral work to help people notice and change patterns of thinking and behavior; this involves identifying unhelpful thoughts, trying new behaviors, and tracking small wins. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on clarifying what matters to a person, accepting difficult feelings, and taking committed actions toward valued goals. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is used to process distressing memories and reduce their emotional intensity through structured bilateral stimulation and guided recall.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Marissa will talk with someone about goals, symptoms, and what has helped or not helped before. Together they decide which methods to try first and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls let the therapist and client work face to face when useful. Phone sessions are a good option when bandwidth is limited or a camera feels like too much. Live chat and text-based messaging can support quick check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing encouragement between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while using the approaches described above.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English