LMHC, 20 years of experience
New to Grow
I'm Marci, I've been in the helping field for over 20 plus years and a Licensed Mental Health Therapist in Indiana with 17 plus years of collaborative counseling with individuals, families and couples through telehealth virtual and in-person counseling. I focus on getting to what you want to achieve, understanding how you most effectively use your internal motivation and tools, and build on your strengths and resources to foster a lasting transformation in your life. It takes courage to seek out a more fulfilling life and to take the first steps towards a change. I am here to support & empower you in that journey.
Each session includes a check-in, processing, and a clear plan so we stay focused and intentional. You guide the work by sharing what you need, what you're working toward, and what feels most important to address. My role is to reflect, offer therapeutic options, and support your growth, but you lead your journey. We will review your progress at each session, including mood and safety, to stay grounded in where you are. If either of us feels it’s time to adjust session frequency, pause, or reassess goals, we will discuss it and create a plan. Every session ends with an action step or next focus to help you move toward your desired outcomes. If progress slows or feels stalled, we can schedule a re-evaluation session to explore what needs to shift. All conversations are confidential unless there is a risk of harm to yourself, others, or concerns of child or elder abuse. If our work together no longer feels productive, we will talk openly about next steps and needed resources. Your initial session will clarify your goals, history, expectations, and whether this therapeutic fit supports your needs.
Marci works alongside her clients to expand their awareness of how they operate in life. Shifting from managing life; to clarity, appreciating the moment and moving with resolved action. Allowing you to see more opportunities and gain the momentum to move in the moment with confidence. Marci utilizes an integrative therapy approach, solution focused with other effective short evidence-based approaches (such has motivational interviewing) and scientific proven methods such as meditation.
I have experience helping clients understand how their internal motivation, strengths, and perspectives—both of themselves and the world—support them in achieving the outcomes they want. Although understanding what is happening is important, including anything from stress to life changes and everything in between, the real progress comes from effectively moving through the process of change. Learning how you operate and using your resilience cultivates stronger self-efficacy and continued movement toward your desired results. I believe in treating everyone with respect, sensitivity, and compassion, while maintaining direct and open collaborative communication. As you take the lead on being the expert in you life, you tailor the therapeutic process to meet your unique and specific needs.
I love integrating solution focused therapy not because it's a quick fix, but a direct deep dive. It focuses on what outcome you want. Where would you like to be? How will you know when you get there? You get to see how you use your strengths, resources, supports and resilience traits to achieve what you want. You are not broken, you don't need to be fixed. You are in a brave place to stop focusing on the problem and start moving toward your desired result.
I utilize Motivation Interviewing because it focuses on how the person moves toward the change they desire. It opens clients to their own personal internal drive through collaborative counseling process which encourages the clients' resolve to achieve their end goal.
Strength-Based approaches bridge the gap between where you are and where you want to be. How? Use what you do well, cultivate it and keep building with it. You have the skills, the resources, the support, the experience, the capabilities, the talent and even the know how to achieve what you want. During this person-centered process you discover the most effective path using what you have to achieve what you want.
Is a transformative process that emphasis long lasting change. The client is not fixing a problem, or trying to change a negative thought or a behavior. Hypnotherapy shifts the way you see the world from the inside, out; from your perspective, to how you see yourself to what actions you take.
Simply put, you are the expert in your life, so you take the lead.