How Marianne works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- South Carolina
- Years in practice
- 8
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Marianne
Marianne Matos uses a client-centered approach that keeps the person's experience front and center. She is Marianne Matos, LPC, and she focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, anger, trauma, and problems with self-esteem. Her style is straightforward and practical, aimed at helping people feel steadier day to day.
She draws on cognitive behavioral tools to help people notice thoughts and change unhelpful patterns. She also uses attachment-based ideas to look at how relationships affect feelings and behavior.
Background and approach
For clients coping with intense emotions, she brings in elements of Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach skills for distress tolerance and emotion regulation. Marianne has eight years of counseling experience and has worked extensively in crisis settings. Much of that work involved supporting people who survived domestic violence and sexual assault, and helping them navigate immediate safety and recovery needs.
That background shapes how she responds to trauma and crisis in therapy. She has experience with adult and older adult populations and has supported people facing grief, caregiver stress, addiction, sleep and eating concerns, and major life changes. Marianne uses clear, practical steps in sessions so people can try new strategies between meetings.
Sessions aim to be collaborative. Marianne helps clients set goals, practice new skills, and track small changes over time. She offers in-person expertise from South Carolina alongside online session options to fit different schedules.
What Marianne works with
Everything Marianne lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Marianne's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Compassion fatigue
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
Approaches Marianne lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Using proven approaches in online therapy
Marianne commonly draws on cognitive behavioral therapy and attachment-based approaches when working online. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety, anger, and low mood. Attachment-based work looks at how early and current relationship patterns shape feelings and coping, which can help with intimacy issues, communication problems, and relationship-related anxiety.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Sessions are collaborative and can blend approaches so the plan fits the client's needs rather than forcing a single method.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and skill practice, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat is good for shorter check-ins, and text messaging helps keep track of progress between meetings. These options make it easier to fit counseling into busy lives and to stay connected when in-person visits are difficult.
Questions people ask about Marianne
What concerns does Marianne commonly address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, anger, self-esteem, grief, addiction, sleep and eating issues, and related problems.
What is her general approach in sessions?
She practices a person-centered style and blends cognitive behavioral techniques and emotion regulation skills to help clients try practical changes between sessions.
What experience does she bring to counseling?
She has eight years of counseling experience, including extensive work at a crisis center supporting survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.
What credentials and region apply to this therapist?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor - LPC - practicing in South Carolina.
In which languages can sessions be conducted and are international clients accepted?
Sessions are offered in English, and she is not accepting international clients.
What session formats are available for therapy?
Sessions may be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How does someone begin working with this therapist?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and scheduling according to the therapist's availability.