Marisol G Westberg, PHD LMFT

I have seen other counselors and have also worked as a therapist and began seeing Dr Westberg when thing were getting rough in my marriage. She was patient and kind and it was great to see her individually while we sorted through things in our marriage separately. She asked open ended questions about my values and needs to help me realize my own strengths and needs as well as how I could accept discomfort during this difficult time. I also like that as I got better (as well as my marriage) she initiated reducing sessions (other therapy has dragged on forever when it wasn’t needed). I have recommended her to friends and really value her nonjudgemental and experienced approach.

I have been seeing Dr. Westberg on a weekly basis for approximately one year. Initially, I came to her for help contemplating the monumentally-​difficult task of ending my marriage, and processing feelings of guilt, shame and remorse associated with divorce. Dr. Westburg’s thoughtful guidance and support was instrumental in making it through the most difficult time in my life. Her kind demeanor and down-​to-​earth, reasonable, even-​handed approach made facing some very difficult issues bearable. I consistently leave my sessions with her feeling resolved and hopeful, armed with strategies to cope with, and overcome the issues I am facing during any given week or month.
I look forward to continuing my work with Dr. Westberg as I continue to evolve emotionally, learning with her help to become a more peaceful, happy person. Her counseling and encouragement to focus on seeking pleasure and happiness has made me a better father, friend, and professional. I recommend her without hesitation to friends and relatives seeking practical, effective strategies to become happier, more effective lovers, parents, and individuals.
Dr. Westburg is not only a respected authority on relationships and intimacy in both academia and print, but I also find her to be to be approachable, kind, creative, unbiased, and open-​minded. Her credentials and professional reputation speak for themselves; more a testament to her effectiveness as a therapist than any silly Unilocal review, but I’m here to say I consider myself blessed to have found her, and I’m not sure where I’d be today without her help. I can’t recommend her highly enough, and look forward to continued personal growth and happiness facilitated by this peerless therapist.

My wife and I went to Marisol for couple’s counseling. It seemed apparent by the second session that Marisol views other’s relationships through her own perception of how things «ought to be». While I always expect bias, Marisol’s was downright unprofessional. My wife and I had come to an agreement about what to discuss the night before our next session, but Marisol refused to allow us to discuss this, clearly feeling she was defending my wife. Meanwhile my wife kept trying to speak up, to say she also wanted to discuss the topic, but her obvious attempts to speak (I could see her trying futilely to get a word in) were ignored by Marisol.
The session ended with me being invited to leave by Marisol (which I did). My wife was then able to explain to Marisol that she also wanted to discuss what we had agreed on, and Marisol admitted that she had become so intent on «running interference», that she had failed to realize my wife and I had already come to an agreement on something. She then invited me back (via text message), but of course I had no interest in working out equitable solutions in such an obviously inequitable environment.
I think Marisol’s behavior is understandably human (we’re all biased), but also very much not what one would hope to find in a couple’s counselor.