Marylou Biasotto
Experienced LCSW helping with stress and life changes
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed in
- Delaware
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Marylou
Marylou Biasotto is a licensed clinical social worker with deep experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, trauma, and life changes. She works with issues such as self-esteem, sleeping problems, intimacy and relationship concerns, parenting stress, career questions, and compassion fatigue. Marylou also supports people dealing with health-related challenges like chronic illness, cancer, and hospice concerns.
She brings 28 years of clinical experience and speaks English. Marylou practices in Delaware as an LCSW - licensed clinical social worker.
Background and approach
She favors straightforward conversation and practical steps in sessions. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness to address thoughts and behaviors that cause distress. When helpful, she adds hypnotherapy techniques to support relaxation and focus.
Sessions begin with listening to what matters most to the person seeking help. Then she and the client set simple, achievable goals. Treatment plans are adjusted over time based on what is working and what is not.
The approach is collaborative and paced to the clients needs. She blends short-term, solution-focused strategies with deeper work when needed. That can mean building new coping skills, changing unhelpful patterns, or working through difficult memories.
Marylou aims to make therapy clear and practical so people can use what they learn outside sessions. Her background includes work in independent practice, community mental health, correctional settings, and international social work. She draws on that variety to offer flexible options for care and to tailor steps to each persons situation.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice and accept difficult thoughts and feelings while clarifying what matters most to them and taking small steps toward those values. It can be used when anxiety, depression, or life transitions make it hard to move forward. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviors, which can help with anxiety, sleep, and mood. Mindfulness Therapy offers simple attention and breathing practices to reduce stress and improve focus; it pairs well with other approaches when calming and present-moment awareness are needed.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will listen first, then suggest techniques that fit the persons goals and preferences. Together they will try methods and adjust the plan if something does not help. Sessions are collaborative and paced to what feels manageable.
Online therapy makes those interventions easier to fit into daily life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions provide a flexible audio option, and live chat or text messaging support brief check-ins and between-session contact. These formats can make therapy more accessible for people with busy schedules, mobility limits, or geographic constraints, while still allowing use of ACT, CBT, or mindfulness-based exercises in real time.
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.
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.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Delaware
- Languages
- English
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