About Marianne
Marianne Matos is a licensed professional counselor who focuses on somatic-informed work alongside talk therapy. She centers sessions on the person in front of her, helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. Marianne uses practical skills to help people build self-esteem and learn to advocate for themselves.
She holds a Master of Science in Mental Health Counseling and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology. Marianne has eight years of counseling experience, much of it at a crisis center supporting people affected by domestic violence and sexual assault.
Background and approach
That work shaped her comfort with crisis and trauma-related concerns. Marianne blends body-aware approaches with attachment ideas and client-centered practice. She also draws on cognitive behavioral strategies and dialectical behavior skills to help with day-to-day coping and emotion regulation.
Sessions often mix talking, grounding exercises, and simple movement or breath work when helpful. Her background includes time supporting older adults, children, and young adults through community and therapeutic roles. Marianne has experience working with people facing addiction, grief, caregiving stress, relationship and intimacy questions, and challenges around eating, sleeping, and parenting.
She provides care in English and practices in South Carolina as SC LPC 7609. Marianne aims to make sessions straightforward and focused on real steps that people can try between meetings.
Approaches that work online and in the body
Somatic-informed work pays attention to how stress and trauma show up in the body. It uses simple breath, grounding, and movement ideas alongside conversation to help people feel steadier and notice physical signs of tension or calm. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in close relationships and how early bonds shape current reactions; it is useful for people dealing with relationship worries, trust issues, or attachment-related anxiety. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's experience and values; the therapist listens without directing and helps people find their own steps forward.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, try strategies in session, and adjust methods to fit what feels most helpful. Clients and the therapist decide together which tools to keep using and which to change.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. These formats make it easier to attend from home, manage childcare or work conflicts, and keep continuity when life is busy. Marianne uses the same therapeutic approaches online as in person, adapting exercises and body-based practices for each format so people can practice skills between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English