About Marissa
Marissa Savala is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Oklahoma with nine years of clinical experience. She helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma, grief, self-esteem, anger, compassion fatigue, and sexuality concerns. She focuses on practical steps people can use right away to feel steadier and more in control.
Marissa favors a solution-focused style that highlights the strengths people already have. She blends that with client-centered work to build a steady therapeutic relationship.
How Marissa works
She also draws on cognitive behavioral and dialectical approaches when helpful to address unhelpful thinking and intense emotions. In a session she aims to create an open, nonjudgmental space where people can talk through difficult feelings and decisions. Conversations are practical and goal-oriented, with clear steps to try between meetings.
The work often includes checking thinking patterns, building new skills, and deciding on small, realistic changes. Her practice includes support for issues such as codependency, control struggles, divorce and separation, domestic violence, post-traumatic stress, substance use, money or financial stress, prejudice and discrimination, and seasonal mood shifts. She also helps people process sexual assault, shame, and questions about sexual identity.
Marissa uses evidence-based techniques and tailors them to each person. She partners with clients to set goals and track progress. The tone in her work is direct, compassionate, and practical.
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What Marissa works with
The areas below are the ones Marissa selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- LGBT
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Oklahoma |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening without judgment and helping people feel understood. It helps when someone needs space to talk through feelings and decide on next steps. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the connections between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and offers tools to change unhelpful thinking and routines; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and mood concerns.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust as needed. Together they decide which tools and strategies feel most useful for the person’s situation.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is good for a full conversation and visual cues, phone works when video is difficult, live chat provides a quicker back-and-forth, and messaging supports brief check-ins or notes between sessions. These options make scheduling easier and allow therapy to fit around work, school, or caregiving responsibilities.
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