Marilyn Priebe, LCSW

Marilyn Priebe is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 30 years of experience practicing in Louisiana. She focuses on stress and anxiety and helps people who are feeling overwhelmed or stuck. She emphasizes clients' strengths and respects each person's story. Taking the first step can feel hard, and she acknowledges that courage it takes to begin.

With a long career in social work, Marilyn draws on practical methods that aim to reduce daily distress. She talks through what is happening now and helps set small, achievable goals. Sessions are straightforward and centered on the client's priorities rather than complex jargon.

Marilyn also supports people facing relationship strain, grief, low self-esteem, depression, and trauma-related concerns. She works with practical problems like panic attacks, phobias, postpartum depression, and caregiver or aging-related stress. Her background includes helping people cope with life transitions such as divorce, end-of-life decisions, and serious illness.

Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. She invites clients to name their goals and helps map steps toward them. Progress is tracked in simple ways so people can see what's helping.

Sessions are conducted in English and the practice does not accept international clients. Before booking, readers should confirm current session formats and scheduling options.

Approaches that help with stress and anxiety

Marilyn uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address stress and anxiety. One approach focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing them against daily experience to reduce anxiety and panic symptoms. This helps people notice what fuels worry and try small experiments to change it.

Another common method involves practical skills for managing strong emotions and scary reactions. These skills include simple breathing and grounding steps, pacing activities, and short behavior changes that lower immediate distress and build confidence over time.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Marilyn collaborates with each person to choose techniques that match their goals and comfort level. She will review options together and adjust methods as progress and needs change.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm session formats before booking since current session types are not listed here. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time so sessions can happen during a lunch break or between errands. Talk with Marilyn about which session arrangements would fit your day and reduce barriers to getting help.