About Marissa
Marissa Torres is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas who uses practical, goal-focused approaches to help people move forward. She meets each person where they are and works alongside them to shift unhelpful patterns. Progress is paced to clients' needs and feels collaborative rather than prescriptive.
She focuses on anxiety, stress, depression, and relationship concerns. She also helps people facing grief, trauma and abuse, issues with intimacy, and struggles around self-esteem and addictions.
How Marissa works
Parenting challenges, communication problems, and social anxiety are among other areas she supports. Marissa blends evidence-informed tools like cognitive behavioral techniques and acceptance-based work with client-centered listening. She also draws on emotionally-focused methods and EMDR when trauma or strong emotions are central to the problem.
Sessions emphasize clear, doable steps so people can test change between meetings. Over 12 years of practice, she has developed a straightforward style that avoids long, abstract interpretations. Conversations focus on practical skills, values-based choices, and emotional processing.
The aim is to help people leave sessions with something useful to try that day. Marissa encourages a cooperative relationship where clients set goals and pace. She frames therapy as a place to try new ways of communicating, manage difficult feelings, and build routines that support lasting change.
Working together, she helps people move from feeling stuck to taking meaningful steps forward.
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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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
How specific approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice what matters and take action in line with those values while tolerating hard feelings. Online ACT sessions typically combine brief skills practice with values-based planning to help clients make changes between meetings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and then tries small experiments to change them. In remote sessions CBT often uses worksheets, short behavioral experiments, and homework that can be reviewed over video or messaging. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on understanding and shifting strong emotions that affect relationships and self-regulation. Through guided conversations clients learn to name feelings and use new responses that reduce distress and improve connection.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods to try based on goals, preferences, and what shows results. Plans can be adjusted as progress is tracked, mixing techniques when that seems most helpful.
Online therapy offers flexibility and practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and screen sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send notes between sessions, share quick updates, or get brief coaching in moments of need. These formats make it possible to keep momentum while fitting therapy into a busy life.
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