About Marci
Marci Gilpin is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 20 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD-related concerns, grief, and relationship struggles. Marci practices from Virginia and offers therapy in English.
Her approach centers on the whole person. She listens for strengths and patterns that matter, then helps clients apply those strengths to daily problems. Sessions often cover family influences, life transitions, sleep and energy, and coping with chronic illness or caregiving strain.
Background and approach
Marci uses practical tools and reflective conversation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Client-centered work emphasizes the person’s priorities and pace.
She also brings mindfulness and narrative techniques for building awareness and shifting life stories. For people with trauma or deeply held painful memories, Marci offers EMDR-informed methods aimed at reducing distress tied to those memories. She blends approaches to fit each person rather than following a single template.
Sessions can address parenting and family stress, adoption and foster care concerns, communication and commitment issues, fertility and fatherhood topics, and challenges like codependency or compassion fatigue. Marci supports practical problem solving alongside emotional healing. Her style is collaborative and straightforward.
She helps people set goals, try new strategies between meetings, and track what works. This makes therapy feel focused and usable for everyday life.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on what matters to the person in front of the therapist. It emphasizes listening, respect for the client’s goals, and working at a comfortable pace to address daily problems and decisions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. It teaches concrete tools to change patterns related to anxiety, depression, sleep, and stress so people can try new reactions between sessions.
EMDR-informed work offers a way to reduce distress tied to traumatic memories. When appropriate, these methods are used to help people revisit painful events with support and track changes in how those memories feel.
Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they’ll try methods and adjust based on what feels most useful.
Online therapy lets people meet by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is helpful for in-depth conversations and visual cues, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and text or chat work well for brief check-ins or quick coaching between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep continuity when life gets in the way.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- 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
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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