Marisa Chiuchiolo

Marisa Chiuchiolo is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, and low self-esteem. She supports adults who are struggling with relationship tensions, family conflict, and mood difficulties. Marisa works in English and Spanish and practices in Florida. With five years of clinical experience, Marisa focuses on practical conversations and clear goals. She listens for what feels most pressing and shapes sessions to match each person's needs. Her style is respectful, sensitive, and grounded in real-life concerns. Marisa addresses issues such as abandonment and attachment struggles, caregiver stress, and the emotional impact of chronic illness or pain. She also helps with communication problems, control issues, and the fallout from separation or divorce. Clients may bring worries about guilt, shame, impulsivity, isolation, or questions about life purpose. Sessions emphasize skills people can use between appointments. Marisa works collaboratively to build coping tools, strengthen self-worth, and improve how someone relates with others. She tailors plans rather than using one fixed method for everyone. Her approach aims to empower people to make steady change. Marisa encourages small, manageable steps and celebrates progress along the way. To begin, she asks about immediate concerns, then helps set attainable goals and next steps.

How evidence-based approaches translate to online care

Many clients benefit from therapies that teach concrete skills and reshape unhelpful patterns. Cognitive approaches focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical exercises; this helps with anxiety, low mood, and stress. Skills-based work concentrates on communication, impulse management, and coping strategies that people can practice between sessions, which is useful for relationship strain and caregiver stress.

Finding the right approach 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 flexible.

Confirm current session options before booking, as formats are not specified here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, such as shorter check-ins during a work break or avoiding travel time to an office. It can also allow continuity when schedules or locations change. Licensed professionals can help adapt exercises and homework to the online setting so therapy stays practical and usable in daily life.