Marquita Wooley , LPC

Marquita Wooley is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 17 years of clinical experience. She focuses on creating a calm, nonjudgmental setting where people can talk through stress, anxiety, depression, grief, self-esteem struggles, and LGBT concerns. Marquita uses practical conversation and goal-setting to help people take small steps toward feeling better.

Marquita draws on person-centered work alongside cognitive behavioral tools to address daily challenges. She helps clients notice unhelpful thinking patterns and practice new behaviors that make life more manageable. Sessions are conversational and focused on concrete skills as well as personal values.

Her background includes work in community mental health centers and hospitals, including higher levels of care such as partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient settings. That experience shaped how she supports people coping with crisis, ongoing mood disorders, caregiver stress, and postnatal mood concerns.

Marquita also brings attention to multicultural concerns, veteran and armed forces issues, and relationship-related topics like communication problems, commitment worries, infidelity, and non-monogamous relationship dynamics. She aims to tailor each session to the person’s cultural context and life situation.

Clients can expect collaborative goal-setting and practical skills drawn from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, and client-centered approaches. Marquita practices in Alabama and offers sessions in English.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking action that matters, even when difficult thoughts or feelings are present. Online sessions can use ACT to set small, doable experiments between meetings and practice value-driven steps in daily life.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. In remote sessions, CBT often includes homework exercises, thought records, and brief skill practice that can be reviewed over video or messaging.

Finding the right approach is part of the process and will be collaborative. The therapist discusses goals and preferences, then adjusts methods to match what the person needs. Clients and the therapist check in on progress and change strategies when something isn’t working.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in fits a break. Live chat and messaging allow ongoing support and brief coaching between appointments. These options make it easier to keep momentum and fit therapy into busy lives.