About Marsha
Marsha Nan Poland Cooper combines practical strategies with a collaborative approach to help people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and relationship concerns. She uses straightforward techniques that people can try between sessions. Nan encourages active participation and occasional homework to reinforce progress.
She has nine years of experience and trained at Western Kentucky University, earning both a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts in Education. Her early work included clinic settings and providing therapy connected to local schools.
Background and approach
That experience shaped how she helps people manage everyday challenges. Nan often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focusing on thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. She also draws on Solution-Focused Therapy to identify practical steps that move a person toward their goals.
These approaches are aimed at tangible changes rather than long theoretical discussions. Her specialty areas include grief, intimacy-related concerns, parenting stress, anger, and coping with life changes. She also supports people dealing with codependency, commitment issues, divorce and separation, emptiness, and social anxiety or phobia.
Nan addresses common struggles like guilt, shame, isolation, and finding life purpose. Sessions are offered by a licensed professional practicing in Kentucky under the LPCC credential. Conversations are plainspoken and goal-oriented, with an emphasis on skills people can apply between meetings.
Nan works in English and structures sessions to fit each person’s needs.
How CBT and Solution-Focused Work Online
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice and change thought patterns that feed anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem. Online sessions let a therapist and client review situations and try new thinking or behavior in real time, with short exercises to practice between meetings.Solution-Focused Therapy looks for small, practical steps that move a person toward their goals. In remote sessions this often means agreeing on one or two concrete actions to try during the week and then checking progress over video, phone, or chat.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with the client about needs, goals, and preferences, and together they decide whether CBT, a solution-focused method, or a mix will fit best. That decision can change as progress is made and priorities shift.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets the therapist and client work closely on skills that benefit from visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick updates, brief coaching between sessions, or when typing feels more comfortable. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy schedule while still focusing on practical change.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Anger management
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English