Marci Gilpin , LCSW

Marci Gilpin is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Virginia with 20 years of experience providing psychotherapy and supportive services. As an LCSW, she is trained to help individuals, families, and groups address behavioral, emotional, and relational challenges and to strengthen the skills people use to meet everyday needs. Her practice emphasizes recognizing and building on each person’s existing strengths while attending to the broader family and environmental factors that shape well-being.

She approaches care with attention to the many dimensions of a person’s life - emotional, physical, and spiritual - believing that effective treatment considers those interconnected parts. Marci works with a diverse range of concerns, including stress and anxiety, depression and bipolar disorder, trauma and abuse, grief, and coping with life changes. She also supports clients facing family and parenting challenges, relationship and intimacy issues, ADHD and sleep difficulties, anger and self-esteem problems, career concerns, and compassion fatigue.

In addition to those areas, Marci offers guidance around abandonment, adoption and foster care, blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, chronic illness and disability, codependency, commitment and communication problems, divorce and separation, fertility and fatherhood issues, and family of origin matters. Her goal is to provide mindful, client-focused counseling that honors each person’s context and helps them apply their strengths to real-life challenges.

Approaches and Online Care Tailored to the Individual

Marci uses Client-Centered Therapy to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space where the client’s experiences guide the work; this approach helps people who want a collaborative relationship focused on personal strengths and self-directed growth. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is another core method she employs - it explores the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and offers practical tools for managing anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and patterns that interfere with daily functioning. For clients who have experienced trauma, Marci incorporates EMDR techniques to support processing distressing memories and reducing their ongoing impact.

Finding the right approach is part of therapy itself, and Marci works with clients to determine which methods best match their needs, goals, and preferences. That collaborative process allows adjustments over time so care remains responsive and meaningful.

Online therapy with Marci can take place by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, offering flexibility for busy schedules, caregiving responsibilities, or mobility limitations. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care and access therapeutic support from different settings while working with licensed professionals and therapists committed to evidence-informed practice.