Dr. Marsha Chase

Dr. Marsha Chase is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in Pennsylvania with eight years of clinical experience. She has worked in homes, residential programs, schools, and outpatient settings. People contact her for many concerns, including depression, anxiety, parenting challenges, grief, relationship worries, and anger.

Her focus includes attachment disruptions and trauma and abuse. She also supports people facing ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and compassion fatigue. Dr. Chase pays close attention to how past losses, adoption or foster care histories, and caregiver stress influence current struggles.

Her counseling style is warm and interactive. She aims to listen with empathy and treat people with unconditional positive regard. Sessions are framed around getting to know each person and tailoring a plan to their needs.

Dr. Chase draws from several practical approaches, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, client-centered work, cognitive behavioral tools, and elements of dialectical behavior therapy. She helps people build skills for managing emotions, coping with life changes, and improving communication.

Her goal is to help clients identify their needs and take manageable steps toward those goals. She emphasizes skill-building - such as emotion regulation and clearer communication - along with talking through the patterns that keep problems in place. When someone is ready to begin, she offers steady support along the way.

Therapeutic approaches and how they work online

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice what matters most and take small actions that match those values, while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. It can be helpful for stress, anxiety, anger, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches practical skills to challenge unhelpful patterns and try new ways of responding to problems.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Dr. Chase will discuss different methods and collaborate on which ones fit a person's goals and needs. That choice can change as work progresses, with the therapist and client adjusting methods based on what helps most.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm specific session options before booking since the original biography does not list formats. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, allow brief check-ins when schedules are tight, and let people join from a quieter space without traveling. Licensed professionals can teach the same CBT and ACT skills remotely as in person, and sessions focus on building emotion regulation, communication, and coping skills that transfer into daily routines.