Marissa Shennan, LMFT

Marissa Shennan is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) who offers focused, collaborative support for people navigating stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, trauma, depression, and life transitions. With three years of professional experience, she integrates evidence-based methods and relational understanding to tailor care to each person’s needs. She works with a wide range of concerns including addictions, grief, parenting challenges, anger, intimacy-related issues, and self-esteem, as well as additional focus areas such as attachment and abandonment, codependency, communication problems, and family-of-origin dynamics.

Marissa draws from approaches like Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), and EMDR to create a treatment plan that fits the client rather than forcing a single method. She frames therapy as a collaborative journey - helping clients set goals, identify practical steps, and adjust strategies as progress unfolds. Marissa holds active LMFT licensure in California and Idaho and conducts sessions in English from Idaho.

She offers online options including video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase accessibility and adapt to different preferences and schedules. Her practice emphasizes practical coping skills and deeper relational work so clients can move toward clearer patterns, healthier connections, and more manageable day-to-day functioning.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and focuses on building safer, more connected ways of relating - it is helpful for people dealing with abandonment, attachment injuries, and relationship conflicts. Client-Centered Therapy centers the client's experience, using empathic listening and collaboration to support self-discovery and personal growth; it is well suited for people facing life transitions, self-esteem issues, and interpersonal concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors into more adaptive patterns and is effective for managing anxiety, depression, and stress.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Marissa works collaboratively with each person to determine which methods best match their needs, goals, and preferences. She adapts techniques over time so therapy remains practical and responsive.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to engage - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging allow therapy to fit work, family, and mobility needs. These options increase accessibility and make it easier to maintain consistency in care while working with licensed professionals and therapists trained in the approaches described above.