Marissa Boscia-Wittekind , LMHC

Marissa Boscia-Wittekind is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) who uses practical, goal-oriented methods to help people move forward. She approaches therapy as a team effort and asks clients to be direct about their needs so sessions can be useful from the start. Her style is warm and engaging, with a focus on clear steps rather than long explanations.

Marissa draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, client-centered ideas, and solution-focused strategies to help people address stress, anxiety, depression, and grief. She often teaches skills for emotional regulation and relaxation alongside thought work. Sessions aim to identify patterns that keep someone stuck and replace them with manageable changes.

She works with a wide range of concerns including addictions, trauma and abuse, parenting stress, relationship and family difficulties, postpartum depression, and career-related distress. Additional focus areas include attachment issues, body image, codependency, smoking and vaping cessation, and social anxiety. Marissa also helps young adults and people coping with life transitions.

In the first session she prioritizes building rapport and understanding a person’s history and goals. After that, she uses practical exercises and short-term goals to create momentum. Progress looks like clearer choices, fewer intense reactions, and more tools for everyday challenges.

Marissa practices in New York and offers sessions in English. She maintains a respectful, nonjudgmental tone and centers the client’s perspective in planning each step of therapy.

How online approaches and therapy methods work together

CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with small behavioral experiments. It is often used for anxiety, depression, stress, and habits like smoking or vaping cessation. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person’s own perspective and values, offering empathic listening and reflection so people feel heard while they decide on next steps. Solution-Focused Therapy emphasizes small, practical changes and clear goals, aiming to build momentum through short-term action.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose which techniques to try first based on goals, daily life, and preferences. That process can shift over time as progress is made and needs change, and decisions are made together rather than imposed.

Online therapy lets these approaches fit into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, skill practice, or ongoing encouragement between sessions. These options provide flexibility so therapy can continue even when schedules or locations change.