Marissa Carlani, LPC

Marissa Carlani is a Licensed Professional Counselor - LPC - practicing in New Jersey who supports people navigating complex emotional challenges. She focuses on helping young adults and women address stress, anxiety, depression, and the dynamics that shape relationships, offering a steady, compassionate presence as clients work toward greater self-understanding and growth.

Her practice emphasizes a collaborative, nonjudgmental approach that centers each person’s unique story. Marissa brings particular experience in working with social anxiety, workplace challenges, and life transitions, helping clients build resilience, process past experiences, and form more meaningful connections with themselves and others.

Using evidence-based therapeutic techniques, she assists clients through grief, family conflict, and other personal growth obstacles while teaching practical communication skills and strategies for self-love. Marissa aims to empower clients to strengthen relationships, clarify life purpose, and move toward a more fulfilling life through steady support and tailored interventions.

Evidence-based approaches and accessible online care

Marissa draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that teach practical skills for coping with stress and anxiety. These methods focus on identifying unhelpful thought and behavior patterns, developing tools to manage physiological and emotional responses, and building day-to-day routines that reduce symptoms and improve functioning.

She also uses grief-focused and family-centered strategies to help clients process loss and navigate interpersonal conflict. These techniques support emotional processing, boundary setting, and improved communication within families and blended households.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Marissa works collaboratively with each client to determine which techniques best match their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they evaluate progress and adjust the plan as work unfolds.

Online therapy with Marissa is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, providing flexibility around work, caregiving, and other responsibilities. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care during life transitions and to access a licensed professional from home or on the go.