About Marsha
Marsha Litton-Baker is a licensed professional counselor in Tennessee with 15 years of experience. She focuses on practical support for people dealing with stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, and life transitions. Her approach is grounded in respect for each person’s story and strengths.
She encourages gradual steps and steady progress rather than quick fixes. Marsha listens first and helps people name what feels hardest. She offers straightforward tools for managing anger, boosting motivation, and handling the everyday pressure of parenting and caregiving.
Background and approach
When work, health, or relationships feel overwhelming, she helps clients sort priorities and try small changes that make a difference. Her work draws on attachment-based ideas and client-centered listening. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and build new habits.
Mindfulness practices are introduced in simple ways to reduce stress and increase focus. Marsha also supports people facing identity challenges like adoption history, attachment concerns, or neurodiversity such as autism and Asperger syndrome. She works with issues tied to chronic illness, caregiving burden, and compassion fatigue, offering steadier ways to cope.
Sessions are collaborative and paced to the client’s needs. Marsha aims to create a space where goals are clear and change feels manageable. She helps people build practical coping skills while honoring their lived experience.
Therapeutic approaches and how they translate online
Marsha commonly uses attachment-based ideas to help people understand relationship patterns and how early bonds shape current struggles. This approach can help with attachment issues, abandonment concerns, and difficulties in close relationships by naming patterns and practicing different ways of relating.She also uses client-centered therapy, which focuses on listening without judgment and helping people find their own solutions. That approach is useful when someone needs time to make sense of feelings or to build confidence. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, is another tool she uses to identify unhelpful thoughts and try small behavioral experiments that change mood and routines.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. Marsha will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. She adapts methods over time so sessions stay focused on practical progress and realistic steps.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video sessions let you work face to face without travel. Phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option or a quick check-in during a break. Live chat and text messaging are useful for on-the-go support, shorter updates, or when someone prefers writing to talking. These options increase flexibility and make it simpler to keep therapy part of a regular routine.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English