About Marianne
Marianne Penichet is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 26 years of practice in Florida. She focuses on helping people facing relationship struggles, depression, anxiety, and trauma-related concerns. Marianne aims to make the first step toward change feel manageable and respectful of each person's strengths.
She sees clients as experts in their own lives and works from that starting point. Sessions are practical and goal-oriented, with attention to what a person already does well.
Background and approach
Marianne encourages small, steady changes rather than sudden overhauls. Her approach uses straightforward tools to address mood, motivation, and stress. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to notice and shift patterns of thinking, and on Motivational Interviewing to build internal drive for change.
Solution-Focused Therapy helps set clear, short-term goals and track progress. Marianne often helps people cope with grief, identity questions, career strain, and challenges tied to parenting or family roles. She also works with concerns like addictions, impulsivity, bipolar mood issues, and compassion fatigue.
Practical coping skills and clearer day-to-day routines are common outcomes of her work. In sessions she aims to be calm, direct, and encouraging. People who want clear steps, steady support, and tools they can practice between meetings often find this style useful.
Appointments are arranged to fit each person's schedule and needs.
Therapeutic approaches and how they translate online
Marianne uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and then try different behaviors to see what works better. That approach is often used for anxiety, depression, stress, and many everyday patterns that get in the way.She also uses Motivational Interviewing to draw out a person's own reasons for change and build commitment at a comfortable pace. This method can be helpful for issues involving motivation, addictions, and making life adjustments.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Marianne treats the choice of methods as a collaborative decision based on what a person needs, their goals, and how they prefer to work. She checks in and adjusts the plan as progress and preferences become clear.
Online formats offer practical benefits for many people. Video calls allow face-to-face discussion from different locations, phone sessions work well when less bandwidth or no camera is preferred, and live chat or text messaging let people check in between meetings or fit brief sessions into a busy day. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and to try tools in real-life moments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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