About Marci
Marci Sturgeon-Rusiewicz is a Pennsylvania licensed professional counselor (LPC) with 15 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage daily stress, reduce anxiety, and work through relationship and family concerns. Her work also targets low self-esteem and the symptoms of depression.
She has worked across community behavioral health, college counseling centers, and independent practice. That background gives her experience with a wide range of life situations, from caregiving stress to chronic illness and body image concerns.
How Marci works
She also addresses topics such as abandonment, adoption and foster care, attachment issues, and the effects of aging. Therapy sessions use straightforward methods that help people notice unhelpful thinking and change small daily habits. Marci uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to support people dealing with anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles.
Conversations are practical and focused on real-life steps that can be tried between sessions. Clients can expect a respectful, nonjudgmental space to talk about thoughts and feelings. Sessions emphasize building motivation, strengthening confidence, and improving communication during conflict.
Marci aims to help people take gradual steps toward a more satisfying daily life. She offers services in English and accepts international clients. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to therapist availability using the Start Therapy button.
What Marci works with
The areas below are the ones Marci selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Pennsylvania |
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Online support options
Practical evidence-based approaches for online care
Marci draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide sessions. One common method focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying new behaviors to change feelings and actions; this approach helps with anxiety, depression, and low motivation. Another approach emphasizes learning skills to manage intense emotions, improve interactions, and reduce impulsive reactions; it is often used when relationships and strong emotions are a concern.Finding the right method is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which strategies to try and adjust the plan as progress is made, keeping the process collaborative and practical.
The biography does not specify which session formats are offered, so confirm available options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, and offer quicker check-ins when needed. It can also allow people to choose quieter surroundings, use less bandwidth when helpful, or schedule short sessions that fit a work break. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises and between-session tasks to work well over distance.
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