About Eliza
Eliza Marcus is a licensed mental health counselor in New York with 30 years of experience. She focuses on everyday problems that wear people down, like stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship strain. She also helps with parenting concerns, compassion fatigue, career questions, and attention-related challenges such as ADHD.
Her approach is practical and straightforward. She listens first and tailors conversations to each person's needs. Sessions look at patterns that get in the way and small changes that make life easier.
How Eliza works
Eliza emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and steady support during hard moments. Many people bring issues tied to family roles, separation, or blended households. She works with concerns including abandonment, codependency, caregiver stress, immigration-related pressures, and first responder stress.
She also addresses intimacy struggles, eating and anger problems, low self-esteem, and impulse control difficulties. Eliza uses therapy methods that fit the person and problem. She draws on acceptance and commitment ideas, client-centered conversations, cognitive behavior strategies, and solution-focused techniques to build practical skills.
The goal is clearer choices, better coping, and more reliable routines. Sessions can include short skills practice, checking what worked since the last visit, and planning doable next steps. Eliza supports people who want honest feedback and small, steady progress toward a calmer, more manageable life.
Eliza lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Eliza works with
The areas below are the ones Eliza selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 30 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online support
Eliza often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice their thoughts and choose meaningful actions. ACT can be useful for anxiety, stress, and feelings of emptiness by shifting attention toward values and small, deliberate steps.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking and practicing different responses. CBT helps with depression, anger, impulsivity, and many everyday problems by teaching concrete skills you can use between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, and then try methods that match those needs. That collaborative process guides which techniques are used over time.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful when body language and a fuller conversation matter. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is low or a simpler check-in is needed. Chat and text messaging work well for brief updates, quick coaching, or shorter check-ins between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep progress moving forward.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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