Marcia Tharp
Hopeful guidance for everyday family life
- Credentials
- LICSW, LCSW
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed in
- Montana, Washington
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Marcia
Marcia Tharp is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Montana. She holds LICSW and LCSW credentials and has 18 years of professional experience. Her work draws on practical therapies like cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness.
Parents read this and often want straightforward help for everyday struggles. Marcia aims to meet people where they are. She uses an adaptable approach that looks for options and small steps forward.
Sessions focus on naming problems, trying manageable strategies, and checking what helps in real life.
Background and approach
She often includes relaxation and narrative techniques to make change feel less overwhelming. Her background includes work across age groups and in varied settings. That range shapes a flexible style that fits different life stages and rhythms.
She has experience addressing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief and loss, depression, sleeping issues, parenting concerns, anger, and self-esteem. Marcia also works with people facing ADHD, bipolar disorder, compassion fatigue, career stress, and coping with big life changes. Additional focus areas include adoption and foster care, caregiving stress, chronic illness, attachment concerns, and dissociation.
She draws from evidence-based approaches to guide sessions. In sessions she aims to create a nonjudgmental space where thoughts and feelings can be shared. The process is collaborative: she listens, offers tools, and helps tailor steps that fit daily life.
Taking the first step can feel hard, and she recognizes that effort as meaningful.
Therapeutic tools and online care that meet daily life
Marcia uses cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and mindfulness in many sessions. CBT focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and trying small behavior changes to reduce anxiety, low mood, or sleeping problems. Mindfulness teaches simple attention and breathing practices to lower stress and help manage strong emotions.Choosing an approach is a joint process. The therapist listens to your goals and preferences and then suggests methods to try. Together you track what works and adapt strategies so they fit your routine and family life.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Sessions can happen by video call or phone, and shorter support can come through live chat or text messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy around school runs, work, and caregiving, while keeping the focus on usable tools and gradual progress.
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.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Montana, Washington
- Languages
- English
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