About Marilyn
Marilyn DeLuera is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing trauma, grief, anxiety, depression, parenting strain, and stress. She focuses on mood and relationship concerns, anger, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and life transitions. Marilyn aims to help people find practical ways to feel better and regain hope.
Her style is warm and person-centered. She listens first and asks questions that clarify what matters most. Sessions focus on small, manageable steps that can change day-to-day life rather than abstract theories.
How Marilyn works
People can expect straightforward talk, validation, and concrete ideas to try between meetings. Marilyn uses approaches that draw on how relationships and life stories shape current struggles. She works with attachment patterns, thought-behavior links, and personal narratives to help people make different choices.
Motivational techniques help when someone feels stuck and wants to build momentum toward change. Her practice draws on 14 years of professional experience as a licensed clinical social worker, LCSW. That background includes helping people cope with grief, abuse, and chronic stress.
Marilyn also brings life experience as a parent and caregiver, which informs her practical focus on daily routines and coping strategies. Sessions are meant to be collaborative. Marilyn helps people set realistic goals and tries to make therapy feel useful from the start.
She aims to help clients find more self-compassion, clearer perspectives, and steady ways to handle life’s hard moments.
Marilyn lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Marilyn works with
The areas below are the ones Marilyn selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 14 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How her approaches work online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current reactions. It helps people notice patterns in close relationships and develop new ways of relating that feel safer and more satisfying. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on being heard and understood; sessions give space for people to describe their concerns while the therapist reflects and supports self-directed growth. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors to change mood and stress levels.Deciding which approach fits best is a shared process. Marilyn will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, and together they adjust methods as progress is made. The aim is to use tools that feel relevant and usable in everyday life rather than sticking rigidly to one method.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls provide face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging fits people who want to write between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other routines while keeping the focus on steady, practical change.
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A practical next step
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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