Marci Sturgeon-Rusiewicz is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania with 15 years of experience.
01About Marci
Marci Sturgeon-Rusiewicz is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania with 15 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, reduce anxiety, and address depression. Marci also supports individuals navigating relationship and family concerns while building self-esteem and confidence.
Her day-to-day work has included roles in community behavioral health, college counseling centers, and independent practice. That variety means she has experience with common life pressures and transitional challenges.
Background and approach
She helps people set practical goals, practice new skills, and notice changes that matter in daily life. Marci uses evidence-based techniques to guide sessions in simple, concrete ways. She describes therapy as a place to talk honestly about thoughts and feelings without judgment.
The therapist aims to create a calm, steady space where people can try different ways of coping and communicating. She regularly supports concerns tied to abandonment, attachment, adoption and foster care, caregiving stress, chronic illness and pain, body image, and blended family adjustments. Other focus areas include commitment issues, codependency, and work with personality-related concerns such as avoidant and antisocial patterns.
Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person. Marci encourages small, doable steps toward goals and celebrates progress along the way. People who prefer straightforward guidance and practical strategies often find this approach useful.
02Credentials
- LPC (Pennsylvania)
- License PC006345 · expires February 2027
- NPI
- 1053955989 · national provider identifier
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03Focus areas and approaches
Everything Marci lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
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04Online support
How evidence-based approaches work in online therapy
Marci uses well-known, evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide her work in clear, practical ways. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors to shift mood and stress. Dialectical Therapy provides tools for managing intense emotions and improving coping skills while also focusing on balancing acceptance and change.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. This means trying strategies, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together over time.
If you are considering online therapy, confirm the session options before booking so you know which formats are offered. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, shorten commute time, and allow for more consistent check-ins. It can also let people use phone or lower-bandwidth options when that suits their day. Marci and other licensed professionals can discuss which format best supports your goals during the initial matching and scheduling steps.
05Questions people ask
What concerns does Marci commonly address?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family challenges, and low self-esteem. Additional areas include abandonment, attachment, adoption and foster care, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and body image.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Marci uses practical, evidence-based techniques and focuses on clear skills people can use right away. Sessions aim to be straightforward and nonjudgmental.
How long has she been practicing?
She has about 15 years of professional experience across community behavioral health, college counseling centers, and independent practice.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania and practices with that credential.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can international clients work with her?
She accepts international clients. Confirm scheduling and any regional details before booking.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability, and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What are the steps to begin therapy?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to therapist availability.
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