Marc Lavett
Practical support for family and life challenges
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Marc
Marc Lavett is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, parenting challenges, grief, and other life changes. He draws on two decades of experience to offer straightforward, practical help. Marc speaks plain language and works with clients to name problems and try realistic steps toward change.
He focuses on understanding how thoughts shape feelings and actions. Sessions often include looking at unhelpful thought patterns and testing new ways of thinking.
Background and approach
He also uses mindfulness techniques to slow down strong emotions and motivational interviewing to support changes people want to make. Marc has practiced since 1998 in a mix of settings, including program development and leadership roles. That background informs a pragmatic approach to therapy.
He offers individual and group counseling and aims to connect progress in therapy to home and work life. In sessions he emphasizes collaboration. He works with each person to build specific, manageable goals.
Progress is measured by what improves day to day, not by abstract labels. Marc is licensed as an LMHC in Florida, license number FL LMHC MH8331. He works in English and accepts international clients for online sessions.
Parents looking for clear, practical guidance around family and parenting concerns will find his style direct and solution focused.
Therapeutic approaches and online options that fit family life
Marc often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on finding unhelpful thoughts and testing new ways of thinking. CBT can help with anxiety, depression, anger, and patterns that get in the way of parenting or relationships. He also draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people understand and shift patterns in how they relate to others, which can be useful for resolving hurt, attachment concerns, and repeated conflicts.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to a person’s situation, goals, and preferences and then recommend methods to try. Clients and the therapist decide together whether to continue an approach or adjust it based on what is actually helping.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, making it easier to fit sessions around school, work, and caregiving. These formats let people check in between busy days, revisit tools they learned, or meet when travel or distance would otherwise be a barrier. Licensed professionals can use these methods to deliver the same practical, goal-oriented work they offer in person.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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