Marsha Carlton, LCSW, CSW

Marsha Carlton is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people move forward from trauma and chronic stress. She is an LCSW and CSW with thirteen years of clinical experience and offers steady, compassionate support during difficult times. Marsha aims to create straightforward, respectful conversations so clients feel heard and understood.

Marsha helps people work through anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, depression, and addictive behaviors. She also supports those coping with relationship strains, family issues, and large life changes. Common threads in her work include addressing attachment wounds, abandonment concerns, codependency, and the emotional fallout from domestic violence or disaster.

Her sessions draw from several practical approaches. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on values-based action and living with difficult feelings. Attachment-Based and Emotionally-Focused methods help repair relational patterns and build healthier emotional connections.

Marsha keeps plans focused on each person’s goals and situation. She tailors the pace and topics to what feels most useful in the moment. She emphasizes simple tools people can use between sessions to manage stress, stay grounded, and practice new ways of relating.

People working with Marsha can expect clear, respectful conversation and a steady focus on workable steps forward. To begin, prospective clients follow the site's process to match and schedule a first appointment.

How therapy approaches translate to online care

Online work with Marsha typically draws on approaches that focus on thoughts, values, and relationships. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice thinking patterns and try different behaviors to reduce anxiety or depression. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy encourages clarifying what matters most and taking small steps toward those values even when feelings are difficult. Attachment-Based work looks at relationship patterns and helps people change how they connect with others and manage closeness.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Marsha partners with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. She adjusts the plan over time if something isn’t helping, so the work stays practical and relevant.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so confirm current online options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. It can also let people use methods like value-setting exercises and behavioral experiments between meetings to keep progress moving.