Marcia Tharp, LICSW, LCSW

Marcia Tharp is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Montana with 18 years of professional experience. She holds the credentials LICSW and LCSW - designations that reflect advanced clinical social work licensure and training in therapeutic practice. Marcia brings an empathetic, client-centered approach that honors each person’s strengths while helping them explore practical choices for change.

Her clinical work draws from evidence-informed methods including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Mindfulness practices, and Motivational Interviewing. These approaches are woven into an individualized plan to address concerns such as stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief and loss, depression, relationship and family challenges, sleep difficulties, parenting issues, anger, self-esteem, career concerns, bipolar disorder, compassion fatigue, and ADHD.

Marcia also works with people facing adoption and foster care matters, attachment and abandonment issues, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, codependency, communication and control problems, dissociation, and related conditions. She emphasizes collaboration in the therapeutic process, helping clients identify goals and practical strategies that fit their lives. Marcia aims to create a supportive environment where thoughts and feelings can be explored without judgment and where each person can move toward greater coping and clarity.