Marlene Dmytryshyn , LCSW

Marlene Dmytryshyn is a New York licensed clinical social worker with 40 years of practice. She focuses on relationship and family concerns, grief and loss, intimacy-related issues, and coping with big life changes. Marlene centers each session on what the client brings and their own strengths. She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people talk through painful events and confusing relationships. Sessions often focus on practical steps clients can try between meetings and clear ways to notice progress. Marlene helps people name what feels stuck and plan small, doable changes. Her experience includes work around abandonment, divorce and separation, and infidelity. She also supports people facing chronic illness, cancer, caregiving stress, and end-of-life or hospice concerns. Topics like guilt, forgiveness, isolation, and midlife shifts are part of her day-to-day work. Marlene pays attention to the emotional and practical sides of problems. She helps clients sort priorities, manage expectations, and rebuild intimacy when possible. When grief or loss is present, she encourages gradual steps toward meaning and routine. Many clients come seeking direction on life purpose, coping with chronic pain, or navigating family problems. Marlene aims to create short-term goals and longer-term plans that fit each person’s pace and values.

Therapeutic approaches and online access

Evidence-based therapeutic techniques focus on concrete steps and problem-solving to ease relationship strain and life transitions. These approaches help people identify patterns, set small goals, and practice new ways of relating that can reduce conflict and improve intimacy. For grief, loss, and caregiving stress, techniques that encourage pacing and gradual re-engagement with daily life are often used. They support managing strong emotions while maintaining necessary routines and responsibilities. For chronic illness and end-of-life concerns, brief practical strategies help with symptom-related stress and difficult conversations. Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist works with each person to match techniques to their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they try methods, note what helps, and adjust the plan over time so therapy stays focused and useful. Online work is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation when helpful, while phone calls can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth. Live chat or text messaging can be useful for quick check-ins, short coaching between sessions, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it easier to keep continuity and fit therapy into a busy life.