About Marisela
Marisela Cuellar-VanHouten is a licensed master social worker in Michigan who helps people facing depression, anxiety, ADHD, trauma, and relationship or parenting concerns. She offers a respectful, compassionate space where clients can talk about what feels hard and make practical changes. Her style is warm and direct and she aims to tailor each plan to the person in front of her.
She draws on methods that focus on thoughts, behaviors, values, and present-moment awareness.
Background and approach
Conversations often include concrete skills for managing stress, mood shifts, sleep, and anger. Marisela also pays attention to how chronic illness, caregiving, or grief shape daily life and coping. Her approach centers on collaboration.
She listens for what matters to the client and adjusts techniques to fit goals and lifestyle. Sessions balance exploring patterns with hands-on strategies that can be used between meetings. Marisela brings ten years of experience providing individual therapy and a longer history in related professional roles.
She identifies as an LGBTQ+ ally and considers cultural background when shaping treatment. Her credential is LMSW, which stands for Licensed Master Social Worker. Clients work with her through conversation, practical exercises, and skill-building.
She encourages small, doable steps toward clearer priorities and improved daily functioning. The focus is on helping people regain a sense of control and purpose while managing life’s challenges.
How therapy approaches fit into online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and reconnect with what matters to them. It focuses on taking action in the direction of personal values even when emotions are difficult, which can help with anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related struggles. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical tools to change patterns that cause distress; it is often used for mood, sleep, and stress issues.Finding the right way of working is part of the process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and try different techniques to see what fits. That decision is made together, and approaches are adjusted as needs change over time.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy schedules or mobility limits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging can provide quick check-ins or shorter coaching-style exchanges. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and to use skills between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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