About Marci
Marci Gilpin is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 20 years of experience helping people sort through hard moments. She focuses on practical support and steady listening so clients can find clearer next steps. Her approach aims to use each person's strengths to address everyday struggles.
She pays attention to how family and life circumstances shape feelings and behavior. That means conversations often look at patterns that started long ago and how they show up today.
How Marci works
Sessions cover common concerns like anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and trouble sleeping. Marci also helps with parenting stress, caregiving strain, and blended family challenges. She supports people facing fertility and adoption questions, chronic illness and pain, or the strain of career and life transitions.
Attention and mood differences such as ADHD and bipolar disorder are part of her practice too. Her clinical work draws on client-centered methods that prioritize each person's goals and on cognitive behavioral ideas that link thoughts, feelings, and actions. She uses mindfulness and narrative techniques to help people notice patterns and try new responses.
EMDR is available when trauma processing is needed. Sessions are offered through video, phone, live chat, and text messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Marci works from Virginia and conducts therapy in English.
To begin, people choose the Start Therapy button, fill a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to the therapist's availability.
Marci lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Marci works with
The areas below are the ones Marci 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
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Virginia |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on what matters to the person in front of the therapist. It emphasizes listening, validating, and helping clients set their own goals so change fits their life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches practical skills to shift unhelpful patterns. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and many daily stressors. EMDR is a structured approach for processing traumatic memories and reducing their emotional hold; it can be used when trauma is a central concern.Finding the best approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide whether to try skills-based work, trauma processing, mindfulness practices, or a combination that feels right.
Online therapy here is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging to increase flexibility. Video lets people use visual cues and longer conversations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow for brief updates, coaching moments, and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make scheduling simpler and let people fit therapy into busy lives.
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