About Marsha
Marsha Litton-Baker is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Tennessee with over 15 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, cope with grief, and build stronger self-esteem. Marsha encourages clients to use their own strengths as a foundation for change and offers steady support through difficult moments.
Her background includes long-term work with adults facing relationship strain, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, and career transitions.
How Marsha works
She also addresses concerns such as ADHD, compassion fatigue, eating issues, and chronic health-related stress. Marsha draws on a mix of practical techniques and relational listening to tailor support to each person's situation. In sessions she blends client-centered care with cognitive tools that help people notice and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Attachment-focused ideas guide conversations about closeness, boundaries, and patterns that repeat in relationships. Mindfulness practices are used when helpful to reduce reactivity and build calm attention. Marsha aims for relaxed, straightforward sessions where people talk about what matters most.
She helps clients set realistic goals, practice new responses, and track small wins. The pace adapts to each person so progress feels steady rather than rushed. People who choose Marsha tend to want practical strategies plus empathic listening.
She supports people who are ready to explore their story and take steps toward better coping, healthier relationships, or clearer priorities.
Marsha lists 9 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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Tennessee |
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Online support options
How Marsha’s Approaches Work Online
Marsha uses client-centered care that places the person’s own goals and experience at the center. That means sessions begin by listening closely, reflecting what matters, and shaping the work around each person’s priorities. It helps when someone wants a respectful space to talk and make clear choices.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. That approach teaches simple skills to notice unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors, useful for anxiety, depression, and motivation challenges. Attachment-focused ideas are woven into conversations about closeness, trust, and repeating patterns in relationships to help people notice and change old habits.
Finding the best approach is part of the process. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose techniques that match goals and preferences, and adjusts methods as needs change. Clients and therapist review progress together and pick what feels most helpful.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversations and visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat or text work well for quick check-ins or ongoing support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between meetings.
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