Marissa O'Connor

Marissa O'Connor is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in New York who focuses on eating and food-related issues along with stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She approaches each person with care and aims to build a supportive, nonjudgmental space. Her style emphasizes practical steps and steady support for people who feel overwhelmed or stuck.

She draws on seven years of clinical experience to help people manage symptoms and make changes they can sustain. Sessions tend to focus on identifying strengths, working through immediate concerns, and building daily routines that feel manageable. Marissa adapts interventions to fit what each person needs rather than using a single method for everyone.

Her work includes attention to body image, caregiving stress, and grief, as well as relationship and communication problems. She also addresses issues like obsessive thoughts, panic attacks, and the emotional fallout from trauma and disaster. This range allows her to pull together tools from different approaches to match a client's goals.

Marissa uses techniques from client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. She explains ideas plainly and helps people try new ways of coping between sessions. The emphasis is on small, steady changes that make daily life easier.

People who choose her often want empathetic guidance and practical skills. She asks questions, listens closely, and co-creates a plan that fits the person's life. To begin, readers are encouraged to use the site's Start Therapy flow to see if she might be a good fit.

How therapeutic approaches work in online care

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the person. It helps people feel heard and guides the therapist to match support to the person's goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors influence each other and teaches skills to change unhelpful patterns; it often helps with anxiety, depression, and disordered eating. Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, combines acceptance and change strategies and offers skills for emotion regulation and managing intense reactions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Marissa will collaborate with each person to identify which techniques fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She checks in regularly and adjusts methods so the plan stays useful and realistic over time.

Confirm current session options before booking since formats are not specified here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow for quicker check-ins when needed. It can also allow sessions that focus on skill practice, problem solving, or reviewing progress between appointments. Ask about the available formats so sessions match your schedule and daily routines.