Marissa O'Connor, LCSW

Marissa O'Connor, LCSW, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in New York with seven years of practice. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, parenting strain, relationship problems, sleep and eating difficulties, and ADHD-related concerns. She also works with grief, anger, compassion fatigue, and life changes using approaches she finds practical and direct.

Marissa uses a client-centered stance alongside cognitive behavioral techniques. She draws on dialectical behavior strategies, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing when useful. Her descriptions emphasize working together to identify small, doable changes rather than long theoretical work.

Sessions focus on clear goals and real-life skills. She pays attention to patterns that keep problems going and to strengths people already have. In practice that looks like setting short-term targets, trying new behaviors between sessions, and checking what helps.

She names specific concerns such as body image, caregiver stress, first responder issues, domestic violence, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, panic, post-traumatic stress, and seasonal mood shifts. Marissa also lists communication problems, forgiveness and guilt work, impulsivity, and finding life purpose among areas she addresses.

Her stated approach is practical and strengths based. The emphasis is on helping people find ways to reduce distress and improve daily functioning. Getting started involves a brief matching step and scheduling a first session through the site's process.

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