- Years in practice
- 35
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Family conflicts
About MerraLee
MerraLee Block is a licensed mental health counselor with 35 years of experience. She focuses on practical help for parents and individuals feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or relationship strain. Her style is direct and steady, aimed at helping people make small changes that add up to real relief.
She works with common problems like communication breakdowns, boundaries, control issues, and low self-esteem. Parenting and blended family concerns are a frequent part of her practice, along with separation and divorce-related challenges.
Background and approach
She also supports people dealing with trauma, compassion fatigue, and burnout from caregiving or work pressures. Her background includes years of hands-on clinical work and service as a Florida Supreme Court family law mediator. That experience informs how she talks through family conflict and practical solutions.
She treats each person as the expert on their life and helps them build on existing strengths. Sessions tend to focus on clear goals, step-by-step problem solving, and improving everyday patterns. She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques tailored to the issue at hand.
Expect straightforward guidance, tools to manage emotions, and time to practice new ways of relating. People who come to her often want calmer communication at home, firmer boundaries, or help navigating transitions. She helps clients move from feeling stuck to taking manageable actions toward a more satisfying life.
What MerraLee works with
Everything MerraLee lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else MerraLee helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- LGBT
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Evidence-informed approaches and online care for parenting challenges
MerraLee Block uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear communication and practical change. One approach centers on communication skills training - teaching ways to listen, express needs, and de-escalate conflict so conversations at home go more smoothly. This helps with arguing less and resolving ongoing disputes.Another emphasis is on boundary work and behavioral strategies. These techniques look at daily routines, responsibilities, and consistent responses so caregivers can reduce power struggles and build predictable patterns. That approach can aid parenting stress, blended family tensions, and problems tied to control or codependency.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your priorities, try methods that fit your goals, and adjust plans as you see what works. Clients take an active role in deciding which tools to keep and which to change.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit busy lives. Video helps when body language matters, phone can be quicker and use less bandwidth, live chat suits short check-ins, and messaging works for ongoing reflections between sessions. These options aim to make it easier to attend appointments, try new skills, and keep momentum while juggling parenting and daily demands.
Questions people ask about MerraLee
What concerns does she address?
She helps with stress, anxiety, relationship strain, family conflict, parenting, grief, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, and related issues such as anger, career changes, and compassion fatigue.
What is her therapeutic style?
Her approach is practical and goal-oriented. Sessions focus on communication, boundaries, and step-by-step problem solving that clients can try between meetings.
How much experience does she have?
She has 35 years of professional work experience, including clinical practice and time serving as a Florida Supreme Court family law mediator.
Where is she licensed and located?
She is a licensed mental health counselor - LMHC - practicing in Florida.
Which languages are offered and can international clients join?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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