About Stuart
Stuart Marcus is a licensed clinical social worker with 35 years of experience. He works with adults coping with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, family concerns, trauma, substance issues, bipolar symptoms, anger, parenting dilemmas, and ADHD. He aims to make the first step easier for people who feel uncertain about starting therapy.
Stuart creates a straightforward, nonjudgmental space where clients can say what they need to say. He invites honest conversation and listens for practical patterns that are getting in the way.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear goals and steps clients can try between meetings. His background includes long experience across clinical settings and with a wide range of concerns. That breadth helps him draw on different strategies to match what each person needs in the moment.
He tailors his approach rather than using one fixed method for everyone. Stuart emphasizes collaboration and small, achievable changes. He helps people build coping tools for anxiety and stress, improve communication in relationships, and manage mood and attention challenges such as ADHD.
He also supports those dealing with trauma, addiction, and parenting stress. People who choose his services can expect calm guidance and practical suggestions. He encourages steady progress and checks in on what is working.
The intent is to help people regain a sense of control and clearer direction in their daily lives.
Approaches and online options that fit your life
Stuart uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on practical change. One common approach is goal-focused problem solving, which breaks larger issues into small, manageable steps to reduce anxiety and stress and improve daily routines. Another approach centers on trauma-informed care, which helps people recognize how past events affect current feelings and behaviors and build safer ways to cope.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Stuart works with each person to identify goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped in the past. Together they try methods and adjust plans until the approach fits the person’s needs and schedule.
Online therapy makes those collaborative sessions easier to arrange. Video calls allow full face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be helpful when bandwidth or camera use is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging offer brief check-ins, quick problem-solving, or a way to report progress between live sessions. These options add flexibility for people balancing work, caregiving, or travel while keeping therapy consistent.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Florida
- Languages
- English
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