About Marylise
Marylise Zwarts helps people grappling with relationship pain, trauma and abuse, grief, anxiety, depression, and struggles with self-esteem. She also supports those facing addiction, stress, parenting strain, career questions, intimacy-related issues, and family problems. Marylise works in English and French and brings 25 years of experience as an LMHC in Florida.
Her style is direct and compassionate. Sessions focus on clear goals and steps that fit each person’s life. She listens first, then uses methods aimed at relieving symptoms and breaking repeating patterns.
How Marylise works
Therapy is framed as teamwork where both therapist and client do practical work. Marylise uses client-centered techniques to keep the person’s needs central. She also draws on psychodynamic ideas to look at patterns rooted in early relationships.
For people with disturbing memories or ongoing trauma symptoms she includes EMDR to address distress tied to specific events. Her background spans public and nonprofit settings and independent practice. Over her career she has worked with people facing substance use concerns, loss, eating difficulties, PTSD symptoms, and burnout.
That range informs a flexible approach that adapts to what each person brings to the room. Sessions aim for steady, noticeable progress. Marylise focuses on helping clients build stronger self-worth, repair relationship patterns, and reduce overwhelming anxiety or anger.
She encourages practical steps clients can use between visits to keep momentum moving forward.
Marylise lists 3 ways of working on the entry:
What Marylise works with
The areas below are the ones Marylise selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English, French |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Approaches for trauma, relationships, and healing online
Marylise uses client-centered work to keep the session focused on each person’s experience and priorities. That approach emphasizes listening, empathy, and tailoring steps to what the client needs right now.She also uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) for people who carry disturbing memories or vivid reactions tied to past events. EMDR is a structured way to process those memories so they cause less distress and interfere less with daily life.
Psychodynamic work helps identify repeating patterns that come from early relationships and life history. This approach looks at how those patterns show up now and helps people make different choices going forward.
Choosing the right approach is part of the process. Marylise will review options with each person and decide together what to try first based on goals and comfort level. That collaborative planning can change over time as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when meeting in person is hard. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief updates, reflections between sessions, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These formats provide flexibility to fit therapy into daily routines.
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