Marilyn Seccombe, LMHC

Marilyn Seccombe is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Massachusetts with 30 years of clinical experience. She works with adults navigating depression, anxiety, stress, and major life changes, offering steady professional support shaped by long-term practice and practical insight.

Her clinical interests include helping people strengthen self-esteem, manage mood and emotional regulation, and untangle challenging personality dynamics. She combines empathy with a strategic focus, listening closely to each person’s history and goals to tailor interventions that fit their circumstances.

Marilyn’s therapeutic style is warm, nonjudgmental, and goal-oriented. She partners with clients to explore difficult feelings, develop healthier coping skills, and build clearer paths forward. Her approach aims to empower individuals to make meaningful shifts in daily functioning, relationships, and self-understanding.

Across three decades of practice, Marilyn has remained committed to walking alongside clients through transition and growth, honoring personal strengths while offering evidence-informed tools and coaching to support lasting change.

Therapeutic approaches for online care and skill building

Marilyn often draws on Client-Centered Therapy, an approach that emphasizes listening and understanding the client’s perspective so they feel heard and supported while exploring personal goals. This method can be helpful for people facing life transitions, self-esteem concerns, or relationship challenges.

She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help clients identify unhelpful thinking patterns and build practical skills for managing anxiety, depression, panic, and mood difficulties. CBT focuses on concrete strategies that people can apply to daily problems and stressful situations.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is another approach in her practice that teaches emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. DBT techniques can be especially useful for intense emotions, self-harm behaviors, and improving communication and boundary setting.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Marilyn works with each person to assess needs, preferences, and goals, and she adjusts techniques over time so therapy fits the individual.

Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, making it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to access care from different locations. These options support continuity of care and make it practical to receive ongoing support while managing everyday obligations.