Dr. Marissa Goldman, LCSW

Dr. Marissa Goldman is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker based in Illinois who focuses on supporting women who often hold everything together for others. She works with high-functioning, capable people who are relied upon by family, friends, or colleagues, and who rarely get asked how they are truly doing. Her practice centers on helping women navigate burnout, anxiety, shifting identity, recurring relationship patterns, perfectionism, and the quiet exhaustion that comes from being the strong one.

Many of Dr. Goldman’s clients arrive having prioritized performing wellness long before they have learned what it feels like to be well. Some are processing earlier wounds, some are learning to name and hold their own needs, and some are simply tired. Her stance is grounded, relational, and deeply human, attending closely to the personal stories and inherited expectations that shape who clients feel allowed to be. She draws from attachment-based, trauma-informed, and mindfulness-based frameworks to meet each person where they are.

Dr. Goldman believes healing does not require proving, earning, or arriving polished - clients may come as they are. She offers a space to set some of the burden down and build new ways of being together, whether someone is in crisis or simply ready for support. She welcomes the opportunity to sit with those ready to begin.