- Years in practice
- 30
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Grief
About Marilyn
Marilyn Priebe is a licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of practice in Louisiana. She focuses on practical help for common struggles like stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and parenting concerns. She speaks plainly and values each person’s strengths when they seek support.
Marilyn centers care on the person telling their story. She treats clients as the expert on their own life and helps them build on what already works.
Background and approach
She aims to make the first steps feel manageable and acknowledges that reaching out takes courage. In sessions she listens for small, usable changes that can ease daily strain. She offers straightforward coping skills for panic, phobias, and anxiety, and helps people sort through grief, guilt, and shame.
She also supports those dealing with life transitions like divorce, cancer, or end-of-life matters. Her work includes attention to relationship issues and patterns that come from family of origin. She helps people address control issues and codependency, and to find clearer personal boundaries.
Marilyn also works with concerns around postpartum depression, trauma and abuse, and post-traumatic stress. Marilyn brings experience with aging and geriatric concerns, hospice and end-of-life counseling, and life-purpose questions. She tries to keep sessions practical, asking what small steps will make life feel safer or more meaningful.
That focus helps parents and individuals move toward goals at a steady pace.
What Marilyn works with
Everything Marilyn lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Marilyn helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Cancer
- Codependency
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Evidence-Informed Approaches for Online Parenting Support
Marilyn uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques aimed at practical change and symptom relief. One approach focuses on teaching coping skills for anxiety and panic - simple breathing, grounding, and stepwise exposure to feared situations to reduce avoidance and build confidence. Another approach emphasizes working through grief and loss with structured conversations and meaning-making, helping people notice small shifts in how they remember and respond to loss.Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. Marilyn listens to each person’s goals, life context, and preferences, then suggests techniques to try. She checks in often and adjusts the plan based on what helps most, inviting the client to guide the work.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions support face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and text are useful for brief check-ins, practicing skills, or updating progress between longer sessions. These options make it easier to get consistent support while balancing parenting and daily demands.
Questions people ask about Marilyn
What concerns does Marilyn help with?
She addresses stress, anxiety, depression, grief, self-esteem, trauma and abuse, and parenting-related struggles, plus related issues like postpartum depression and panic.
What is her therapy style like?
She uses a practical, person-centered style that emphasizes strengths and small steps people can try between sessions.
How much experience does she have?
She has 30 years of professional work experience in clinical social work.
What credentials and location apply?
She is an LCSW licensed in Louisiana and practices with that credential.
Which languages and international options are available?
Sessions are offered in English and she is not accepting international clients at this time.
What session formats are offered?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability, and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a time according to therapist availability.
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