About Marsha
Marsha Rimler is a licensed clinical social worker in New York with 20 years of professional experience. She focuses on practical support for relationship concerns, low self-esteem, motivation, and depression. She frames therapy as a collaboration where the client knows their story best and brings strengths to the work.
Marsha offers straightforward help when life changes feel overwhelming. She listens for patterns that keep causing pain and helps people try new responses.
How Marsha works
Sessions tend to focus on taking small, doable steps toward goals rather than long lists of theory. Her work draws on approaches that look at how early bonds shape current relationships and how thoughts affect feelings and behavior. That combination helps people who struggle with intimacy, attachment worries, or mood issues find clearer ways to cope.
She also uses skills-focused methods for managing strong emotions and stress. Marsha makes space for concerns tied to family history, caregiver stress, grief, trauma, and workplace strain. She supports people dealing with anger, sleep problems, ADHD-related challenges, and questions about life purpose.
Her style is patient and direct, aimed at helping clients build confidence and practical tools. Many people come for help after a major life change or when patterns start to feel stuck. The process usually begins with one step at a time - naming the problem, testing small changes, and strengthening what already works.
Marsha encourages steady progress and respects each person’s pace.
Marsha lists 4 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.
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current connections. Online sessions use conversation and reflective questions to notice patterns in trust, closeness, and distance and try new ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on how thoughts affect feelings and behavior. In teletherapy CBT often involves identifying unhelpful thoughts, testing them, and practicing behavioral changes between sessions to improve mood and daily functioning.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That might mean starting with attachment-focused conversation and adding CBT exercises, or blending skills training when emotions feel hard to manage. Clients are invited to give feedback so the plan evolves with their needs.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect - video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth is limited, live chat for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules and to use different formats for goal work, skills practice, or quick problem-solving.
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