About Marva
Marva Carter is a licensed clinical professional counselor (LPCC) in Ohio with 14 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, anger, and self-esteem concerns. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical support for everyday struggles. Marva aims to make the first step feel manageable for anyone thinking about therapy.
Her background includes work with substance use concerns and many life transitions such as career changes, grief, and relationship challenges.
Background and approach
She combines hands-on clinical experience with ongoing education to stay current with effective treatments. This mix helps her tailor care to what each person needs right now. Marva uses a person-centered, strengths-based approach in sessions.
She emphasizes building trust, recognizing a client's strengths, and adapting tools to fit personal goals. Clients are invited to shape the work so it matches their pace and priorities. Her training has included evidence-based techniques like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction.
Marva draws from those methods when they fit a client's situation, focusing on practical skills such as managing difficult emotions, improving motivation, and reducing unhelpful thoughts. She describes therapy as a team effort. Marva offers empathetic guidance, consistent support, and straightforward strategies to help people build resilience and move toward lasting change.
She welcomes people who want clear, usable tools for coping with life's challenges.
How evidence-based methods translate to online care
Marva's training includes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce anxiety and improve mood. She also uses Motivational Interviewing to help people strengthen their own reasons for change and build motivation when facing addictions or stuck patterns.She values a collaborative process and will work with clients to choose approaches that match their needs, goals, and preferences. Deciding which methods to use is a shared effort during early sessions and can be adjusted as work progresses.
The biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. It can also make it simpler to keep continuity after life changes or when a schedule is unpredictable. Licensed professionals can adapt CBT and motivational techniques effectively over distance, focusing on practical exercises, goal setting, and real-world homework that people can use between sessions.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also listed
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English