About Marylise
Marylise Zwarts offers help for relationship problems, trauma and abuse, grief, anger, low self-esteem, stress, anxiety, addictions, intimacy issues, and life changes. She focuses on common struggles like sleeping or eating problems, parenting stress, career questions, and feelings of guilt or shame. Marylise speaks English and French and practices in Florida as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC).
She works in a direct, practical way. Sessions look at what is keeping people stuck and test small changes that feel doable.
Background and approach
Marylise draws on therapies that focus on the person in the room, on deep emotional patterns, and on processing traumatic memories. That mix helps with symptoms and with the life patterns behind them. With 25 years of experience, Marylise has worked in a range of settings including clinical programs and community organizations.
She has helped people who struggle with addiction, anxiety, depression, trauma, and the aftermath of loss. Her background includes long-term practice in both France and the United States. Her style is warm and straightforward.
She aims for practical progress fast, while also attending to the deeper issues that keep problems returning. People who want both short-term relief and longer-term change often find this approach useful. Therapy starts by identifying goals together and then choosing methods that fit the client's needs.
Sessions are offered online by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, and Marylise can work with international clients as well.
How her approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building an honest, accepting relationship. In practice this means the therapist follows the client's concerns and helps them find their own solutions, which can help with self-esteem, relationship struggles, and life decisions.Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is used to address disturbing memories and trauma-related symptoms. The method guides a person through processing upsetting memories so those events feel less overwhelming and intrusive in daily life.
Psychodynamic Therapy looks at recurring patterns and early relationships that shape how someone reacts today. This approach can help people understand why they repeat certain relationship or emotional habits and begin to make different choices.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Marylise will discuss goals, preferences, and the problems you bring to decide which methods to try. The process is collaborative and she adjusts the plan as progress unfolds.
Online sessions make therapy flexible and easier to fit into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be a good option for shorter check-ins. Live chat or text-based messaging can work for quick support, ongoing reflection, or when writing helps express thoughts. These formats let people keep therapy consistent across locations and schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, French