Marissa Boscia-Wittekind
Supportive, practical therapy for everyday challenges
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed in
- New York, Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Marissa
Marissa Boscia-Wittekind is a licensed mental health counselor who uses a collaborative, down-to-earth approach. She invites honesty and works with clients to set clear, achievable goals. Sessions focus on practical steps and building a trusting relationship so people can make steady progress.
Her manner is warm and engaging, and she aims to help clients feel understood from the start. She draws on Client-Centered Therapy to follow each person’s pace and priorities.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is used to spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. Solution-Focused Therapy helps break problems into manageable steps and find immediate strategies to improve day-to-day life. Marissa has eleven years of experience as an LMHC - licensed mental health counselor - practicing in New York.
She brings strength-based techniques such as emotional regulation and relaxation skills into sessions when those tools match a client’s needs. Her work often addresses stress, anxiety, depression, and changes related to life transitions. People who are struggling with parenting challenges, family concerns, addictions, trauma, grief, or career stress can expect practical planning and collaborative problem solving.
Marissa emphasizes empowerment and helping clients become less stuck in old patterns. She explains each step clearly and checks in to adjust the plan as needed. The first session centers on building rapport and identifying goals.
Clients can expect a straightforward conversation about history, current struggles, and what a useful next step might look like.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Marissa uses Client-Centered Therapy to center sessions on each person’s priorities and lived experience. This approach focuses on listening, reflecting, and helping clients set their own goals, which is useful when someone needs acceptance and clarity about next steps.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, to identify patterns of thinking that keep problems going and to test small behavior changes. CBT is often helpful for anxiety, depression, stress, and habit changes because it breaks issues into clear, concrete steps.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Marissa collaborates with clients to decide which techniques fit their needs and preferences. Together they try methods, review what helps, and adjust the plan as goals evolve.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules and for people who prefer to meet remotely. Video calls let sessions feel like in-person meetings while phone, live chat, and text-based messaging give options for shorter check-ins or times when talking live is hard. These formats make it easier to keep consistent momentum and integrate new skills into daily life.
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.
Solution-Focused Therapy
Rather than examining the problem at length, this looks at what is already working and builds on it. Sessions tend to be practical and forward-looking, with small achievable steps, which translates readily to shorter online conversations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- New York, Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
Next step
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