About Marc
Marc Lavett is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) with 20 years of clinical experience. He helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, and relationship or parenting concerns. He also supports those dealing with trauma and abuse, LGBT issues, bipolar mood concerns, and major life changes.
Marc takes a direct, practical approach in sessions. He listens first and then helps clients spot the thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going.
How Marc works
From there he offers hands-on tools to change unhelpful thinking, manage strong emotions, and rebuild routines that feel more manageable. He draws on several well-known methods including client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, emotionally-focused approaches, and motivational interviewing. Sessions often include skill practice, real-world experiments, and straightforward conversations about values and goals.
Marc has worked in many settings since 1998, including roles that combined leadership, education, and therapy program development. That background informs a results-oriented style and an emphasis on measurable progress. He has provided individual counseling, group work, and family-oriented support in those roles.
People who choose him can expect clear explanations, goal-focused plans, and practical strategies they can try between sessions. He practices in Florida and holds the LMHC credential.
Marc lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Marc works with
The areas below are the ones Marc selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Marc commonly uses client-centered methods and cognitive behavioral techniques in online work. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, understanding each person’s experience, and helping them find their own solutions; it is useful for building trust and exploring feelings. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) involves spotting and testing unhelpful thoughts and trying different behaviors to ease anxiety, depression, and addiction-related patterns. He also draws on emotionally-focused ideas when relationships and attachment issues come up. That approach helps people name strong emotions and practice new ways of responding in close connections. Choosing the right approach is a team effort - the therapist and client discuss goals, try methods, and adjust as needed so work feels useful and relevant. Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions are good for face-to-face conversation and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or use less bandwidth. Live chat or text messaging works for brief check-ins, mood tracking, and short coaching moments between longer appointments. These options make scheduling more flexible and let people keep steady progress even with busy lives.Start online instead of waiting
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