Marissa Geraci

Marissa Geraci is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida with nine years of professional experience. She helps people who feel stuck by addressing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, low self-esteem, career doubts, and questions about life purpose. Marissa also supports people coping with trauma and abuse, intimacy issues, sleep problems, parenting stress, and compassion fatigue.

Her work uses practical, talk-based methods. Sessions focus on what is getting in the way now and on small, workable steps to change patterns. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thoughts and habits, and on Gottman Method ideas for improving communication and managing conflict in close relationships.

Marissa adapts the conversation to each person rather than following a fixed script. She listens for patterns around guilt, shame, infidelity, jealousy, isolation, or self-love concerns and helps people try different ways of responding. She also addresses women's issues and LGBT concerns when they come up in sessions.

People meet her to sort through career crossroads, grief, or the aftermath of a relationship rupture. In sessions she blends practical skill-building with focused conversation about values and priorities. That approach is meant to help someone make clearer choices about what comes next.

To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session. Marissa notes that session fees vary by location and are arranged through a cancellable subscription model.

How Marissa uses CBT and Gottman ideas online

Marissa draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and test thoughts and behaviors that keep them stuck. CBT sessions often involve identifying specific patterns, trying small experiments between meetings, and tracking what changes over time. This approach is commonly used for anxiety, low mood, sleep issues, and stress.

She also uses principles from the Gottman Method to address relationship communication and conflict. That means focusing on practical communication habits, reducing harmful interaction cycles, and building clearer ways to express needs and boundaries within close relationships.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Marissa will talk with clients about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is seen or priorities change.

The therapist’s profile does not list specific online session formats, so confirm available options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, shorten travel time, and allow for check-ins during a break from work. Different formats can also make it simpler to use fewer visual cues, reduce bandwidth needs, or focus on a brief skills check-in when that suits a person’s schedule.