About Marci
Marci Zago is a licensed mental health counselor who focuses on helping adults manage anxiety, chronic stress, burnout, and low self-esteem. She brings 14 years of experience and aims to create a calm, steady space where people can speak honestly and find practical ways forward. Marci works from Indiana and conducts sessions in English.
Many people come to Marci feeling worn out or disconnected from what they want. She helps them name their stressors, sort through priorities, and develop simple daily habits that reduce overwhelm.
Background and approach
Conversations are direct but compassionate, with attention to small, workable steps that fit each person’s life. Her approach emphasizes collaboration. Marci listens first, then helps set clear goals and a plan for change.
She focuses on building coping skills, improving self-talk, and increasing resilience so clients can handle everyday pressures more easily. Marci also supports people facing relationship strain, trauma and abuse, or difficult life transitions such as divorce or changes in caregiving roles. She addresses family of origin issues, workplace stress, and the unique demands that come with adoption and foster care scenarios.
Practical tools are a regular part of sessions, including communication strategies and emotion regulation techniques. Therapy can include short-term coping plans or longer work on deeper patterns, depending on what a client needs. The goal is steady progress toward clearer priorities and better day-to-day functioning.
To begin, Marci uses a collaborative fit process to match goals to methods. She can meet through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, and works with a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Evidence-based approaches for online care
Marci draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One approach emphasizes skills training for managing anxiety and stress, teaching breathing, grounding, and routine habits that reduce day-to-day overwhelm. This kind of work helps when symptoms feel constant and you need tools to cope in the moment.Another strand focuses on processing past hurt and trauma in manageable steps, helping people make sense of painful events and reduce their hold on daily life. This method aims to build emotional regulation and lessen reactivity, which can improve relationships and functioning.
Choosing the best method is a collaborative process. Marci will talk through your goals, try approaches that fit your needs, and adjust methods as progress is observed. The first sessions often focus on immediate relief and then move toward longer-term work if that is helpful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which allow flexibility for different routines. Video works well for in-depth conversation and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and texting are useful for brief check-ins, quick coping reminders, or scheduling between fuller sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around a busy life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Indiana, Illinois, Nebraska, Texas
- Languages
- English