Marissa Shennan , LMFT

Marissa Shennan is an LMFT - a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist - based in Idaho who brings a collaborative, compassionate approach to clinical work. With three years of experience, she helps clients navigate stress, anxiety, relationship challenges, trauma and abuse, depression, life transitions, addictions, grief, intimacy concerns, parenting struggles, anger, and self-esteem issues. She also works with related areas such as abandonment, attachment difficulties, codependency, communication problems, family of origin issues, and questions about life purpose.

Marissa blends evidence-informed methods to tailor care to each person or couple. She integrates attachment-based perspectives, client-centered principles, cognitive strategies, emotionally focused techniques, and EMDR when appropriate to create focused treatment plans. Her style emphasizes partnership - setting goals together and choosing interventions that fit a client s needs and values. Marissa provides therapy through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer practical options for busy lives. Her practice aims to support meaningful change while helping clients build skills to manage emotions, improve relationships, and move toward their goals.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Marissa uses attachment-based work to explore how early relationships shape current patterns. This approach helps people understand connection styles, heal from relational wounds, and improve intimacy and trust in close relationships.

She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - CBT - to identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT is practical and skill oriented, often used for anxiety, depression, stress, and coping with life changes.

When trauma is central to a person s experience, Marissa may integrate EMDR to support processing of distressing memories and to reduce their ongoing impact. EMDR can be especially helpful for trauma and abuse related concerns.

Finding the right combination of approaches is part of the therapeutic process. Marissa works collaboratively with clients to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences, adjusting the plan as progress unfolds.

Online therapy with licensed professionals offers flexibility and accessibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, maintain continuity of care across life changes, and access support from a comfortable setting while working toward meaningful change.