Marlene Dmytryshyn, LCSW

Marlene Dmytryshyn is a licensed clinical social worker with forty years of experience in New York. She focuses on relationship and family concerns, grief and loss, intimacy issues, and coping with major life changes. Marlene works with people who are dealing with separation, illness, caregiver stress, and the everyday strain of making meaning after loss. She emphasizes the client as the expert in their own story and looks for strengths to build from.

Her style is practical and straightforward. In sessions she listens closely, asks clear questions, and helps people name what feels most urgent. Marlene supports clients through difficult transitions such as divorce, midlife shifts, and serious illness. She also addresses shame, guilt, and isolation so people can reconnect with purpose and relationships.

Marlene has long experience helping caregivers manage stress and the emotional weight that comes with caring for someone who is ill or aging. She also helps people facing hospice and end-of-life decisions, and those coping with cancer or chronic pain. Her approach attends both to practical problems and to the emotions that come up around them.

People who work with her can expect a collaborative process that prioritizes their goals. She encourages small, doable steps toward change and uses the client’s strengths to move forward. To begin, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability.

Marlene offers services in English and practices in New York. She uses a subscription model for sessions that can be canceled at any time, and international clients are not currently accepted.

Evidence-based approaches and online care

Many clinicians who work on relationships, grief, and life transitions use evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on present concerns and skills. One common approach helps people identify patterns in their interactions and then practice small behavioral changes to improve closeness and communication. Another approach focuses on processing loss and building coping strategies so grief feels more manageable and daily life becomes easier to navigate.

Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will work together with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and what feels comfortable. That decision is collaborative and can shift as progress is made.

Session formats are not specified in the available biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow check-ins during a lunch break or between appointments. It can also provide alternatives when in-person meetings are difficult due to caregiving responsibilities, illness, or travel. Licensed professionals adapt the pace and tools of therapy to the way a person prefers to meet.