About Marsha
Marsha Carlton uses a direct, client-centered approach to help people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, and life changes. She is a licensed clinical social worker in Georgia, holds LCSW and CSW credentials, and draws on 13 years of clinical experience. Her style is warm and respectful and focused on practical steps people can use between sessions.
She combines cognitive-behavioral strategies with acceptance and commitment ideas to address difficult thoughts and patterns.
How Marsha works
Attachment-based work and emotionally-focused techniques guide conversations about relationship wounds, abandonment, and problems that come from family of origin issues. Together these methods help people rebuild trust in themselves and others. Marsha tailors each plan to the person she is working with.
That can mean practicing mindfulness exercises, testing small behavior changes, or mapping out healthier ways to communicate. She also supports people facing addiction, domestic violence aftereffects, or complicated grief by focusing on immediate coping and long-term recovery steps. Sessions include practical skill-building and space to process painful feelings without judgment.
Marsha pays attention to shame, guilt, and codependency patterns so clients can learn different responses and set clearer boundaries. The work moves at a pace set by the client. Her practice offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
People in Georgia who prefer English language sessions will find a range of ways to connect and try methods that fit their daily life.
Marsha lists 10 ways of working on the entry:
What Marsha works with
The areas below are the ones Marsha selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Isolation / loneliness
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCSW, CSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 13 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Georgia |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches that translate well to online care
Marsha commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her practice. ACT focuses on noticing thoughts without getting stuck in them and choosing actions that match personal values; it can help with anxiety, avoidance, and motivation. CBT breaks down unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns into manageable steps and teaches specific tools for depression, anxiety, and coping with change.She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy when relationship wounds or family of origin issues are part of the picture. That work looks at how early connections shape present reactions and helps people practice new ways of relating and setting boundaries. Choosing the right mix of approaches is collaborative - the therapist and client decide together which methods suit the person’s needs, goals, and comfort level as therapy progresses.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and skills practice, phone sessions can fit a short break or when bandwidth is limited, and messaging supports brief check-ins or ongoing reflections between meetings. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting into everyday life.
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