About Marquita
Marquita Wooley is a licensed professional counselor with 17 years of experience. She uses a person-centered style to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, self-esteem concerns, and LGBT-related issues. Her manner is straightforward and respectful as she listens and helps people find practical steps forward.
Marquita holds a master's degree in counseling psychology and practices in Alabama. She blends several therapy methods to meet each person's needs rather than using one fixed approach.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what matters to the individual and move at a comfortable pace. Her work draws on acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values and build committed action. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and develop new coping skills.
Emotionally focused ideas are woven in when emotions need naming and regulation. Clients who face caregiver stress, aging and geriatric concerns, fertility challenges, postpartum mood changes, or the effects of trauma from disasters will find practical strategies for day-to-day coping. Marquita also addresses veteran and first responder issues, multicultural concerns, and relationship communication problems with attention to each person’s background.
Therapy sessions emphasize clear goals, repeated practice, and small changes that add up. Marquita helps people translate insight into routines they can use between sessions. She encourages honest conversation and steady progress.
Approaches for online care and practical change
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps that match those values. It is useful when someone feels stuck or wants to build a purposeful routine. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood. It gives concrete exercises and homework to practice between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences, then suggest one or more approaches to try. That decision is collaborative and can shift if something isn’t helping.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into real life. Video lets people read facial cues and have a deeper conversation. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging can be used for quick updates, brief coaching, or steady support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep appointments and practice new skills consistently.
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What this counselor works with
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- Aging and geriatric issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Alabama
- Languages
- English