About Marilyn
Marilyn Babcock helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, and major life changes. She also offers coaching for coping strategies and support for compassion fatigue. Marilyn is a licensed clinical social worker with 27 years of experience and works from New York.
Her style is straightforward and practical. She asks clear questions, listens closely, and gives simple at-home practices to try between sessions. Clients may be asked to read short pieces, try journaling, or use brief mindfulness exercises to notice patterns and build new habits.
How Marilyn works
Marilyn draws on Jungian ideas about meaning and symbols to help people reconnect with inner resources. She also uses mindfulness practices to reduce stress and psychodynamic thinking to look at recurring patterns that cause trouble. These approaches are used together to address grief, boundaries, caregiving strain, midlife concerns, and questions about purpose.
Sessions have a conversational tone but also include structured steps to make real changes. Marilyn encourages honest effort from the person in therapy and offers guidance on self-care, setting clearer limits, and rebuilding energy after loss or long caregiving roles. Her additional focus areas include aging and geriatric issues, hospice and end-of-life counseling, communication problems, codependency, Seasonal Affective Disorder, and women’s issues.
Marilyn works with individuals who want steady, reflective support and practical ways to feel better in daily life.
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Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 27 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Therapeutic approaches and online sessions
Jungian Therapy looks at symbols, dreams, and personal meaning to help people reconnect with parts of themselves that feel lost. It can be useful for questions of life purpose, midlife change, and grieving what has ended.Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple exercises to notice thoughts and feelings without getting swept away by them. These practices help lower stress, ease anxiety, and support coping with caregiving demands or compassion fatigue.
Psychodynamic Therapy pays attention to repeating patterns and earlier life influences that shape current behavior. It helps people understand why they get stuck and how to try different responses moving forward.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with clients about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, and then adapt methods so they fit the person rather than the other way around.
Online therapy offers several practical options including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful when seeing facial cues matters, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a quieter call is preferred, and messaging or live chat can fit short check-ins or busy schedules. These formats make it easier to keep continuity of care and to try different ways of communicating while working on stress, grief, or life transitions.
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