Dr. Marsha Chase
Empathetic therapist for practical family challenges
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed in
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Marsha
Dr. Marsha Chase is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Pennsylvania with eight years of clinical experience. She has provided care across family homes, residential programs, schools, and outpatient settings.
Her practice addresses a wide range of concerns, from anxiety and depression to parenting struggles and trauma-related attachment disruptions. She is known for a caring, interactive style. Sessions emphasize empathy, genuineness, and unconditional positive regard.
The therapist takes time to learn each person’s story before suggesting ways to move forward.
Background and approach
Dr. Chase combines practical techniques with a human-focused approach. She draws from cognitive behavioral therapy, client-centered methods, acceptance and commitment therapy, and dialectical behavior strategies.
That mix helps people build skills for managing stress, mood changes, and relationship challenges. In sessions she focuses on clear, manageable goals. Early work often involves identifying patterns, building coping skills, and practicing new ways to communicate.
Over time the aim is to increase emotional awareness and reduce the daily problems that get in the way of functioning. Her practice also emphasizes attachment and trauma-informed care. She helps people name the effects of past hurts and develop healthier relational approaches.
The effort is collaborative, paced to each person’s needs, and focused on concrete steps toward improvement.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and choosing actions that match your values. It helps with anxiety, stress, and making concrete life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. It is useful when past disruptions affect trust, closeness, or how someone connects with others.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist discusses goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. From there she suggests methods to try and adjusts them based on what helps in real life. The process is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs.
Online sessions are available as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue work between meetings. The range of formats also lets people choose how they feel most comfortable communicating while learning new skills and practicing them in daily life.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- 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
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Marsha
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- Stop at any point