Hello! I am an experienced, licensed psychologist who has helped many individuals, couples, and families to navigate various life transitions. I enjoy serving clients who are willing to assess their value systems to determine if their values are still consistent with who they want to be. To some extent, our personal styles are genetically determined. However, I also believe we base our values on early learning, whether that education was positive or not.
In your first session, we will get to know each other. Together, we will begin to discover how you arrived at your crossroads, as well as start the plan for your future destination.
As a provider, my greatest strength is my intuition. However, I learned a long time ago that my intuition is only as accurate as my knowledge and experience. Consequently, I have worked, and continue to work, to add to my knowledge and experience.
I have tremendous respect for individuals who are open to addressing their difficult experiences. To do so, requires courage, and I will partner with you on this journey. Painful life experiences leave an unfinished learning, and the purpose of therapy is to complete this learning. In individual therapy, I help client’s to say, “No,” without feeling guilty, and to move away from repetitive overthinking. We will address your “inner critic” to help you to be present in relating to others. Individual therapy can address your motivation and vitality, helping you to manage stress, rather than stress managing you. With couples and family therapy, I help couples stop having the same argument over and over. After infidelity, couples may find the path back to “us.” Partners with parenting differences can learn to collaborate for their kids. Since chronic illness can negatively impact a couple, therapy may help you both to stop asking “Why is this happening to me?” and begin asking, “How can we get through this together?” Family therapy can help blended families learn to unify, and help parents build a bridge to children.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
I help clients to evaluate their goals so that their goals match their true values.
Family Therapy
I provide family therapy for the following issues: single-parenting, marital therapy for communication or cultureal differences, parents with adolescent behavioral problems, families adjusting to an illness, parents with a child diagnosed with Autism , ADHD, or an Anxiety disorder.
Couples Counseling
I help couples to improve their communication. The following are examples: couples with a neurodivergent partner, couples who have difficulty listening to each other, couples with communication difficulties due to financial stressors, and couples who are addressing commitment issues.
23 ratings with written reviews
April 23, 2026
Marilyn truly understands how to find the source and meets you where you are mentally building from there. Definitely does not come in like a wrecking ball. She is the real deal.
April 4, 2026
Marilyn was very helpful in our first visit. My wife admired her skill in reading the situation and identifying her emotional and mental state. I appreciate Marilyn’s skill with edifying my wife’s emotions. That will help me be able to practice that skill so I can relate to my wife and we can connect better as a couple. Looking forward to our second visit.
March 16, 2026
She is very open minded and waited for me to get what I needed to say out. She asks questions genuinely and showed she cared and could keep up with what I had to say. Very kind, understanding, and helpful!