Marissa Shennan , LMFT

Marissa Shennan is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in Idaho who brings a warm, collaborative, and straightforward style to her work. With three years of professional experience, she focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, relationship challenges, trauma and abuse, depression, and life changes, as well as issues related to parenting, grief, intimacy, and addictions. Marissa draws on a range of clinical approaches to tailor treatment to each person - blending attachment-based work, cognitive-behavioral techniques, emotion-focused strategies, and EMDR when appropriate - to address both everyday struggles and more complex concerns.

She prioritizes partnership in therapy, helping clients identify goals and creating practical, individualized plans to move toward those goals. Marissa also attends to underlying patterns such as attachment wounds, codependency, family of origin dynamics, and difficulties with communication or control, and she works to reduce guilt, shame, and isolation while strengthening coping skills and self-esteem. Therapy with Marissa can include short-term problem solving or deeper trauma work, with interventions selected to match a client s needs and pace.

Marissa provides services in English and offers sessions via multiple remote formats to accommodate different schedules and preferences. She frames therapy as a collaborative process aimed at meaningful, sustainable change.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Marissa Shennan integrates several evidence-informed approaches to meet clients where they are. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns - it helps people improve trust, closeness, and emotional safety in relationships. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical skills to identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, making it useful for anxiety, depression, and stress management. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a trauma-focused method that helps people process distressing memories and reduce their emotional impact when trauma is a central concern.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic work. Marissa collaborates with each client to assess needs, preferences, and goals, and she adjusts techniques over time so the plan fits the person rather than forcing a single method.

Online therapy offers practical benefits for many clients - sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging increase flexibility for busy schedules, reduce travel time, and make consistent care more accessible. Licensed professionals can deliver the same core interventions remotely, and Marissa adapts activities and tools to work effectively across these formats.