Marci Gilpin, LCSW

Marci Gilpin, LCSW, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker practicing in Virginia with 20 years of experience delivering psychotherapy and supportive services. As a social work clinician, she focuses on helping people, families, and groups shift patterns in behavior, emotion, and relationships so they can better meet everyday needs and goals. She works from a strengths-based perspective, helping clients identify existing capacities and apply them to areas of difficulty while remaining mindful of family and environmental influences.

Marci attends to the multiple dimensions that shape a person - emotional, physical, and spiritual - and considers those factors when planning treatment. Her practice addresses a broad range of concerns, including stress and anxiety, depression and bipolar symptoms, trauma and abuse, grief and loss, sleep difficulties, attention and hyperactivity challenges, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting and family conflicts, coping with life changes, and caregiver or compassion fatigue. She also supports people facing infertility, adoption and foster care questions, blended family dynamics, chronic illness or pain, and career or self-esteem struggles.

Throughout her work, Marci integrates client-centered care with evidence-informed methods to tailor the work to each person’s needs. She aims to create a respectful, collaborative therapeutic process that honors family context and practical life demands while guiding clients toward greater resilience and functioning.

Integrating Therapeutic Approaches for Online Care

Marci combines client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and EMDR to tailor online treatment to each person’s needs. Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding the client’s experience and building a supportive therapeutic relationship that helps with self-esteem, communication, and family or parenting concerns. CBT offers structured techniques for identifying and shifting unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can be effective for anxiety, depression, sleep difficulties, and coping with life changes. EMDR is a trauma-focused approach that supports processing distressing memories and symptoms related to past abuse or loss.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Marci works with clients to explore goals, preferences, and symptoms and then adapts methods so therapy feels practical and relevant. She often integrates elements from different approaches to meet each person where they are.

Online therapy through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging adds flexibility for clients managing busy schedules, caregiving duties, or mobility limits. These options allow licensed professionals to maintain continuity of care and make it easier to access therapy from home, work, or other settings while preserving the collaborative and active nature of the therapeutic work.