Dr. Marsha Chase, LMFT

Dr. Marsha Chase is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Pennsylvania with eight years of clinical experience. She has worked in family homes, residential programs, schools, and outpatient settings. Dr. Chase helps people who are facing depression, anxiety, relationship strain, parenting challenges, trauma, and attachment disruptions.

Her approach is warm and interactive. She aims to understand each person as an individual and builds a plan around their needs. Sessions combine client-centered work with practical strategies drawn from cognitive behavioral methods and other approaches.

Dr. Chase often focuses on attachment issues and the effects of past trauma and abuse. She also supports people coping with grief, anger, career stress, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and complex or co-occurring concerns. Her background includes work with adoption and foster care topics, blended family stress, caregiver strain, and dissociation.

In sessions she emphasizes empathy, genuineness, and unconditional positive regard. She partners with people to identify goals and to learn skills they can use outside therapy. That can include techniques for managing anxiety, tools for improving communication, or steps to reduce burnout.

Her goal is to provide a steady presence while clients take practical steps toward feeling better. When someone is ready to begin, she offers supportive guidance as they move through change and recovery.

Approaches that guide online sessions

Dr. Chase uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns so they can feel and function better. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is also part of her work and focuses on clarifying values and building committed action even when unpleasant feelings are present. Attachment-Based Therapy is used to look at how early relationships shape current connection and to build more secure ways of relating.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about their goals, history, and preferences, and then try methods that match those needs. Over time the plan can shift based on what helps most in real life.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer therapy and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a client prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text allow brief check-ins, skill practice, and flexible scheduling during busy days.