enlighten counseling

About Marian Taylor, LCSW

Marian is a graduate of Boston University with a master’s degree in social work. Dedicated to helping each client live a more fulfilling and meaningful life, she creates a safe haven for you to grow and change. With a strengths-based approach, she enables healthier self-perceptions and provides tools for enhanced relationships so you can feel more secure, peaceful, and whole. She has experience with adults and teenagers encountering anxiety, depression, trauma and PTSD, eating disorders, grief, diminished self-esteem, life transitions, caregiver support challenges, and relationship issues. She has training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Family Systems Therapy, and Narrative Therapy. By building a trusting alliance, we can engage in multi-disciplinary methods, to increase your hope, healing, and happiness.

Qualifications

• Years in Practice: 4 Years
• License: LCSW in Utah / 11652815-3501
• License: ASW in California/ 95382 (LCSW pending)
• School: Boston University
• Year Graduated: 2020

Additional Credentials

• Certificate: Johns Hopkins: Disaster Mental Health Intervention
• Certificate Date: 2014
• Certificate: National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI): Teacher Training
• Certificate Date: 2011

How Enlighten Counseling Can Help

Marian Taylor, LCSW, provides professional individual counseling to help clients heal, increase hope, and progress toward a brighter path:

“Life presents unexpected challenges, leaving us feeling diminished, stuck, and in pain. I offer my witness and compassionate support to your story and struggles.  We work together to empower a unique journey of change. Using complementary approaches, I help clients to find healthy perceptions of themselves and strengthen their relationships so they can feel more whole. I appreciate opportunities to help clients combat anxiety, depression, stress, trauma, chronic grief and loss, relational conflict, eating disorders, low self-esteem, life transitions, addictions, parenting challenges, women’s issues, and caregiver support struggles.

I provide therapy to adults and adolescents and I have experience in health care and clinical social work.  I also completed a certificate in Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) to treat trauma and PTSD symptoms. I endeavor to help you feel understood and valued in a safe, authentic, and restorative therapeutic relationship.

Growth often emerges from struggles. Your feelings are a guide to your values that can help move you toward a more meaningful path. I believe in your power to overcome and that you can use your personal strengths to transform discomfort and empower change. If you feel I would be a good fit for your journey, I would love to support you.”

Psychology Today Credentials

Specialties

• Anxiety
• Depression
• Eating Disorders
• Grief & Loss
• Trauma & PTSD
• Relationship Issues
• Other Services

Other Services

• Addiction
• Anger Management
• Behavioral Issues
• Borderline Personality
• Caregiver Issues
• Coping Skills
• Emotional Disturbance
• Family Conflict
• Family Support for Mental Illness
• Life Coaching
• Life Transitions
• Parenting
• Peer Relationships
• School Issues
• Self Esteem
• Stress
• Suicidal Ideation
• Women’s Issues

Group Therapy

Weekly group therapy activities: sign interest list. The group will be scheduled when 8 to 10 individuals are enrolled.  Costs of groups vary and will be posted.

• Women’s Group (monthly)
• Therapy Book Club (monthly)
• Art Therapy (weekly for 4 sessions)
• Write for Healing your Sense of Self (weekly for 6 sessions)
• Grief and Recovery Group (weekly for 4 sessions)
• Clinician Connection and Consultation Group (monthly)

Demographics

• Elders (65+)
• Adults
• Teen
• Christian