About Marquise
Marquise Middleton is a licensed professional counselor in Missouri who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, grief, trauma, and parenting challenges. He brings five years of professional experience to sessions and focuses on practical steps people can use between meetings. Marquise aims to make the first steps into therapy easier.
He listens closely and works at the client's pace. Sessions focus on clear goals and simple strategies that can reduce overwhelming feelings and improve day-to-day functioning.
How Marquise works
His approach blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral techniques and skills from dialectical behavior therapy. That means Marquise pays attention to each person's story while teaching concrete tools for managing thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. He also uses solution-focused ideas to set achievable short-term goals and internal family systems concepts to help understand internal conflicts.
In sessions he prioritizes clear communication and practical homework. People can expect to talk through situations, try new ways of responding, and check what works. The style is collaborative and direct, with room for reflection and emotional processing.
Marquise supports concerns such as attachment and abandonment issues, caregiver stress, communication and control problems, guilt and shame, impulsivity, loneliness, men's issues, and mood or panic concerns. His work aims to increase self-understanding and build lasting coping skills.
Marquise lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Marquise works with
The areas below are the ones Marquise 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
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Missouri |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approaches and online therapy that fit your life
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting space. It helps people clarify what matters most and guides the pace of work according to each person's needs and comfort. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, teaches skills to notice unhelpful thoughts and change patterns that fuel anxiety, panic, and depression. It often involves small homework tasks to practice new ways of thinking and behaving. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, provides concrete emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills to manage intense feelings and reduce impulsive reactions.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try approaches that match those goals, and adjust based on what helps most. That collaborative process makes it easier to pick strategies that fit daily life and personal values.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a longer session is helpful. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is preferred. Live chat and text messaging are useful for short updates, brief coaching, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options help people fit therapy around work, caregiving, and other responsibilities.
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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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