About Marsha
Marsha Broers is a licensed clinician in Illinois with 24 years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and addictions. Marsha aims to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space where clients can begin honest conversations about difficult topics.
She works with each person to shape sessions around their needs. That can mean practical strategies for day-to-day coping or time spent understanding how past patterns affect the present.
Background and approach
Her approach combines Client-Centered Therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), so sessions mix listening and reflection with concrete skills and exercises. Marsha pays attention to areas that often come up with these concerns. These include abandonment issues, codependency, family of origin struggles, communication problems, and challenges like panic attacks or seasonal mood shifts.
She also supports people dealing with substance misuse and domestic violence effects, and helps with forgiveness, guilt, and feelings of isolation. Her style is calm and straightforward. Conversations are paced to match what the person needs that day.
Practical tools, thought work, and stepped changes in behavior are blended with empathetic listening to help people feel steadier. For someone taking the first step, Marsha tries to make the process clear and manageable. She collaborates on goals and checks progress as therapy continues.
The focus is on helping people find workable ways to feel better and move forward.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
The client-centered approach focuses on empathetic listening and meeting people where they are. In practice this means the therapist reflects concerns, validates feelings, and helps clients set their own pace for change.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, emphasizes the relationship between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Sessions often include identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and trying practical exercises or behavioral experiments to reduce anxiety, manage mood, or address addictive behaviors.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences, then shape sessions to match. Over time the plan can change based on what helps most, and progress is reviewed together.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy schedules or limited transportation. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is low, and live chat or text-based messaging can be useful for brief check-ins or when someone prefers written communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or family routines while still using evidence-informed approaches.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English