About Marsha
Dr. Marsha Chase is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) in Pennsylvania with eight years of clinical experience. She has worked in homes, residential programs, schools, and outpatient settings.
Many people come to her for anxiety, depression, relationship strain, parenting stress, trauma, and ADHD-related concerns. She focuses on attachment disruptions and trauma. Her style is caring and interactive.
She aims to listen closely and treat each person with respect and unconditional positive regard.
Background and approach
In sessions she blends humanistic, client-centered ways with practical tools from cognitive behavioral methods. She also draws on acceptance-based and skills-focused techniques when helpful. Dr.
Chase works with clients to build simple, usable strategies they can try between sessions. Her goal is to help people identify what they need and how to meet those needs. She supports people in developing skills to manage emotional upset, improve communication, and navigate life changes.
The process emphasizes small, steady steps and realistic problem-solving. Dr. Chase invites clients to explore challenges at a pace that feels manageable.
She aims to create space for honest conversation and to adapt plans as goals evolve.
How her approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and decide what matters most to them. It focuses on values-based action and can help with anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions, then tests small behavior changes to reduce symptoms. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and managing ADHD-related routines.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships affect current patterns and communication. It can help people who struggle with trust, abandonment worries, or repeated relational cycles.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. That collaborative process shapes a plan that is practical and adjustable as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful for full sessions and nonverbal cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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