Marci Sturgeon-Rusiewicz
Compassionate, practical therapy for family concerns
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed in
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Marci
Marci Sturgeon-Rusiewicz is an LPC with 15 years of clinical experience based in Pennsylvania. She focuses on helping people manage daily stress, reduce anxiety, and address depression. She also supports clients dealing with relationship or family conflict and those wanting to build self-esteem and motivation.
Her background includes work in community behavioral health, college counseling centers, and independent practice. That variety has exposed her to many everyday struggles parents and caregivers face.
Background and approach
She uses practical, evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try new ways of coping. Sessions are conversational and straightforward. She aims to create an open, nonjudgmental space where thoughts and feelings are named and worked through together.
The pace tends to match what each person can manage, with a focus on small, achievable steps. Marci has applied her approach to issues such as abandonment, attachment concerns, blended family dynamics, and caregiver stress. She also supports people navigating chronic illness, body image, adoption and foster care questions, and other complex life circumstances.
She offers services in English and accepts international clients. To start, prospective clients use the site’s Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
How Marci Uses Evidence-Based Techniques Online
Marci draws on well-known, evidence-based techniques to guide her work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect; it helps people change unhelpful thinking and try practical behavioral shifts to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms. Dialectical approaches emphasize balancing acceptance and change, teaching skills for emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness when emotions feel overwhelming.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Marci works with each person to identify goals and preferences, and then adapts techniques that fit their situation. She encourages clients to try strategies together in session and adjust them based on what helps.
If you are considering online therapy, confirm the session formats offered before booking since the biography does not list them. Online work can make scheduling easier and reduce travel time, fitting sessions into busy family routines. It can also allow shorter check-ins when time is tight, or let someone choose a quieter setting that helps them focus. Licensed professionals can use these methods effectively at a distance while helping clients build skills that apply to everyday life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
Next step
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