About Marsha
Marsha Hayes is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Louisiana. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, mood swings, addictions, and relationship and family problems. She also supports people facing grief, parenting strain, intimacy concerns, eating issues, anger, and the challenges of ADHD and young adulthood.
Marsha uses straightforward, practical methods in sessions. She blends client-centered talk with cognitive-behavioral skills and solution-focused steps so people leave with tools they can use again.
How Marsha works
She also offers EMDR when trauma or strong distress from past events is a major concern. Her style is calm and respectful. She focuses on clear goals and teaches skills for coping with panic attacks, social anxiety, and mood instability.
Sessions aim to reduce symptoms and improve day-to-day functioning with activities and homework that fit real life. With 18 years of experience, Marsha has worked in different settings with adults. Her Louisiana LPC credential is listed as LPC.
She emphasizes an atmosphere that is nonjudgmental and supportive, where people can talk openly and try new strategies. She structures therapy around each person’s needs and goals. Early sessions focus on understanding the problem and establishing practical steps.
Follow-up work builds on small wins and adjusts techniques until they match what’s helpful in daily life.
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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
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 18 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Louisiana |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience. It helps people feel heard and shapes goals based on what matters most to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and is often used for anxiety, panic, depression, and mood problems.EMDR is an approach used when past distressing events continue to cause strong symptoms. It works by processing those memories so they cause less emotional pain and interfere less with daily life. Marsha combines these methods so sessions address both current coping skills and deeper patterns when needed.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will review your concerns and goals, try methods that seem likely to help, and adjust over time. You and the therapist decide together which combination of approaches feels most useful.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging lets people fit sessions into busy lives. Video is useful when visual cues help the work, while phone sessions need less bandwidth. Live chat or text can work for quick check-ins or when typing out thoughts feels easier. These options make it simpler to practice skills between meetings and keep therapy consistent during life changes.
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