About Marsha
Marsha Rimler is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in New York with 20 years of experience. She helps people facing relationship struggles, low self-esteem, depression, and the stress that comes with life changes. Marsha emphasizes practical steps and listens to each person's story before suggesting ways forward.
Her approach starts with respect for the client’s own knowledge about their life. She treats clients as partners in therapy and focuses on strengths that can be built on.
Background and approach
Conversations aim to be clear and direct so people leave with tangible ideas to try between sessions. Marsha uses methods from attachment-based work to understand relationship patterns and from cognitive behavioral therapy to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
She also draws on client-centered techniques to keep sessions focused on the client's priorities and on dialectical behavior strategies when emotion regulation skills are needed. Sessions often include goal-setting, practice of new skills, and gentle challenges to avoidant patterns. Parents and caregivers can bring concerns about sleep, parenting stress, or caregiver burnout and get concrete strategies to manage daily routines.
She also supports people dealing with grief, trauma, workplace strain, and questions around identity and intimacy. People seeking help with attention-related difficulties such as ADHD can work with Marsha to manage life impacts and develop routines that fit their strengths. She encourages small, sustainable changes and helps track progress over time.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Marsha commonly uses attachment-based work to map how past relationship patterns show up now; this helps people understand why they react certain ways in close relationships and what to try instead. She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavioral changes to see what works in day-to-day life.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Marsha works with each person to clarify goals, tries techniques that match those goals, and adjusts the plan based on what helps. Clients and therapist decide together which methods feel most useful and practical for the client's life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video works well for face-to-face conversation and skill practice, phone can fit a break at work or when video is not possible, and text or chat allow shorter check-ins and easier note-taking. These options make it easier to keep up with therapy around busy schedules and changing responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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