Marissa Raskin , LMHC

Marissa Raskin is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York with ten years of clinical experience. She draws on a background in criminal justice and forensic mental health to support people facing practical and emotional challenges. Her work covers concerns such as anxiety, depression, addictions, and stress, with an emphasis on real-life problems like parenting, workplace strain, and women’s issues.

She has a dual master’s degree in Forensic Psychology and Forensic Mental Health Counseling from John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Before that she studied Criminal Justice and Psychology at the University at Albany. Those academic steps inform how she understands behavior, choices, and the impact of difficult life events.

Her style is warm, empathetic, and nonjudgmental. Sessions focus on clear goals and respectful conversation. She avoids stigmatizing labels and centers the person in front of her rather than their diagnosis.

Marissa mixes practical techniques with reflective work. She uses cognitive behavioral methods to identify unhelpful thinking patterns. Mindfulness practices help people manage stress and strong emotions. Motivational interviewing is used when someone is weighing change or facing addictive behaviors.

People come to her for help with relationship concerns, grief, parenting struggles, ADHD, panic, and career questions. She also supports those coping with trauma, blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, and smoking or vaping cessation. Her sessions aim to be straightforward, useful, and tailored to each person.

Approaches that translate well to online therapy

Marissa uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people spot and change unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviors. CBT is practical, with clear steps and homework that can be handled between sessions and tracked in video or chat formats.

She also draws on mindfulness therapy to teach simple attention and breathing practices that reduce stress and ground people in the moment. These exercises work well in short phone check-ins or as guided practices sent by text for daily use.

Her practice treats the choice of approach as a collaboration. During early sessions she will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide whether to focus on thinking skills, present-moment practices, motivational work, or a blend of methods.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when deeper discussion is needed. Phone sessions are an option when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is preferred. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit short updates or step-by-step coaching into a busy day. These formats let people keep therapy consistent while juggling work, kids, and daily life.