About Marsha
Marsha Nan Poland Cooper uses practical, goal-oriented approaches to help people manage stress and emotional struggles. She is known as Nan and brings nine years of clinical experience to her work in Kentucky. Sessions focus on clear steps people can take between meetings to make small, steady changes.
Nan began in clinic settings and later provided services in local schools. She opened a independent practice five years ago and continues to combine structured work with a warm, down-to-earth style.
How Marsha works
Her academic background includes a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts in Education from Western Kentucky University. Her sessions often use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and replace it with more workable patterns. She also uses Solution-Focused Therapy to set short-term goals and build on practical strengths.
These approaches are used with common concerns like anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, grief, and life transitions. Nan helps people facing relationship strain, intimacy-related issues, codependency, commitment concerns, divorce and separation, and parenting stress. She also supports those dealing with guilt, shame, isolation, life purpose questions, seasonal affective disorder, social anxiety, and women's issues.
Expect a structured conversation with occasional between-session tasks. Her style is collaborative and straightforward. Clients set priorities, and she offers tools and homework when helpful.
Therapy is framed as a team effort to build coping skills and make daily life feel more manageable.
Marsha lists 2 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
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Anger management
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LPCC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Kentucky |
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Online support options
How CBT and Solution-Focused Work Online
Marsha Nan Poland Cooper commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot thought patterns that increase anxiety or low mood and practice different responses. CBT sessions online focus on concrete skills like breathing, restructuring thoughts, and step-by-step behavioral experiments that can be tried between meetings.She also uses Solution-Focused Therapy to set clear, short-term goals and notice small improvements. This approach highlights what is already working and uses brief, targeted conversations to build momentum toward practical outcomes like better sleep, improved communication, or stronger daily routines.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then adapt techniques to the client's needs in an ongoing, collaborative way.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can fit a lunch break or lower bandwidth situations, and chat or messaging suits quick check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to keep consistent care while fitting therapy into a busy life.
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