- Years in practice
- 21
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Addictions
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
About Mariellen
Mariellen LePage is a licensed clinical social worker based in Tennessee with 21 years of practice. She focuses on parenting concerns alongside a wide range of issues like anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma, grief, and stress. She aims to make therapy straightforward and useful for people who are feeling overwhelmed or stuck.
Her style is direct and collaborative. Mariellen listens first to understand what matters most to each person. Then she helps set clear, achievable goals and teaches skills to use between sessions.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to be practical, skill-focused, and paced to fit each client’s needs. She uses several well-established approaches to guide sessions, including acceptance and commitment methods, cognitive behavioral techniques, and emotion-focused work. These tools are used to reduce unhelpful thoughts, increase meaningful action, and improve emotional connection and regulation.
Mindfulness and client-centered principles also shape how she works in session. Clients can expect a mix of talk, skill practice, and simple exercises to try at home. Mariellen draws on two decades of experience to adapt methods to common struggles such as sleep and eating problems, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting stress, caregiver strain, and job-related burnout.
The aim is steady progress rather than quick fixes. She offers sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Sessions are arranged through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability.
What Mariellen works with
Everything Mariellen lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Mariellen helps people with.
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Mariellen lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How specific approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice what matters to them and take small actions toward those values. Online ACT sessions combine discussion and short exercises to reduce avoidance and increase meaningful steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and teaches practical tools to change them. In remote sessions CBT often includes thought records, behavioral experiments, and homework you can do between meetings. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people name and work with strong emotions to improve relationships and self-understanding; in online EFT the therapist guides emotion-focused conversations and practices that can be tried outside sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works together with each person to choose methods that fit the problem, goals, and personal preferences. That collaboration can include mixing techniques from different approaches as needed to meet specific parenting or life-stress goals.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and shared exercises. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging let people send updates and get brief support between longer sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and help people fit care into busy schedules.
Questions people ask about Mariellen
What kinds of concerns are addressed?
Mariellen helps with parenting-related stress and a broad range of issues such as anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma, grief, sleep and eating problems, and burnout.
How would you describe the therapy style?
Sessions are collaborative and practical. She listens first, sets clear goals with clients, and teaches skills to use between meetings.
What experience does the therapist bring?
She has 21 years of clinical experience working with a wide set of concerns and adapts approaches to fit each person’s situation.
What credentials and location are listed?
The clinician is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, practicing from Tennessee.
Which languages are supported and are international clients accepted?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
Care is provided via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How does pricing work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability. Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What steps do I take to begin?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, then schedule sessions according to the therapist’s availability.
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