About Marcia
Marcia Blake is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 17 years of experience supporting people through hard seasons. She focuses on building a solid rapport and treats each person as the expert on their own life. Her style is practical and down-to-earth, aimed at helping people feel steadier and more able to handle day-to-day challenges.
She has worked in residential programs, community mental health, and independent practice. That background means she can draw on many real-world counseling skills learned over time.
Background and approach
She helps adults and adolescents with issues such as depression, bipolar mood concerns, anxiety, grief, trauma, substance use, and school-related struggles. Her practice blends several approaches to match what a person needs in the moment.
Marcia uses Somatic work to connect body sensations to feelings, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to focus on values and action, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot and change unhelpful thinking patterns. She also employs attachment-based and client-centered ideas to strengthen relationships with self and others. Sessions may include creative tools like journaling, poetry, music, or art when that fits a person's style.
Marcia often works on identifying triggers, untangling negative core beliefs, and building simple day-to-day practices that support change. The goal is steady progress rather than quick fixes. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions based on availability.
Marcia practices in Texas and works in English.
How somatic and evidence-based approaches translate online
Marcia combines Somatic work with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and attachment-informed techniques to support emotional and behavioral change. Somatic work helps people notice physical sensations that connect to emotions and can be useful for stress, panic, and trauma-related tension. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking small actions toward those values while learning to live with uncomfortable thoughts and feelings.Attachment-based ideas help people map how early relationship patterns show up now and guide healthier ways of relating to self and others. Finding the right mix of these approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate to see what feels most helpful based on a person's goals, needs, and preferences, and will adjust methods as progress is made.
Confirm the exact session options before booking to know which online formats are supported. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. It can also let people practice somatic exercises and skills where they live, then bring observations back to sessions for review and planning.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Michigan, Texas
- Languages
- English