Marissa Gurello , LMHC

Marissa Gurello, LMHC, helps people who are feeling stressed, anxious, depressed, or stuck in painful patterns. She also supports those facing relationship strain, low self-esteem, caregiving stress, and struggles common to women. Her tone is direct and warm, aimed at making the first step feel manageable.

Marissa takes a collaborative, strengths-based approach. She listens for what matters to each person and builds practical steps from there. Sessions focus on clear goals, small changes, and useful tools that clients can try between meetings.

Her approach blends cognitive behavioral ideas with client-centered care. That means she helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors, while keeping the conversation focused on each person's values and experience. Marissa tailors techniques to the concern at hand, such as social anxiety, attachment issues, or communication problems.

She brings four years of experience as a licensed mental health counselor in Massachusetts. She frames therapy as a partnership and aims for sessions that feel personable and doable rather than overwhelming. Many people come for help with guilt, shame, impulsivity, or to rebuild self-love.

Practical matters like scheduling and session format are handled up front. Marissa offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different routines. She encourages prospective clients to begin with a short matching questionnaire to see if her style fits their needs.

Therapeutic techniques and online care tailored to needs

Marissa uses evidence-based methods that help people change unhelpful thinking and build new habits. One common approach focuses on noticing and testing thoughts that increase anxiety or low mood, then practicing different responses to see what works. This helps with symptoms like social anxiety, worry, and depressive thinking.

She also emphasizes a client-centered way of working that centers each person's values and goals. In that approach, sessions are driven by what matters most to the client, with the therapist offering feedback, tools, and encouragement. This style is useful for repairing communication, addressing attachment concerns, and building self-love.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Marissa will collaborate with each person to choose techniques that fit their goals, preferences, and daily life. That means trying small strategies, checking what helps, and adjusting over time so the plan feels useful and realistic.

Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people see facial cues and work in real time, phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging supports frequent check-ins or shorter touchpoints. These formats aim to make care more flexible and easier to fit into a busy schedule.