About Maryleigh
Maryleigh King is a licensed social worker who meets people where they are. She helps adults facing relationship pain, grief, anxiety, depression, and major life changes. She offers calm presence and practical support for people wanting clearer boundaries and healthier habits.
Maryleigh brings six years of clinical experience and uses a mix of body-focused and talk therapies. She pays attention to how stress shows up in the body and in everyday routines.
Background and approach
That means sessions can include noticing breath, physical tension, and simple movement alongside conversation. Her approach also draws on acceptance and commitment techniques and client-centered listening. Those methods help people clarify values, set small goals, and respond differently to painful thoughts.
Cognitive strategies are used when helpful to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. In relationship work she focuses on emotions and connection. She uses Emotionally-Focused ideas and communication tools to reduce reactivity and improve understanding between partners or within family dynamics.
She also supports people coping with addiction, codependency, parenting stress, and life-stage transitions. Maryleigh trained at Michigan State University and holds an LMSW - Licensed Master of Social Work. She works with people in Michigan and accepts international clients for remote sessions.
Her style is warm, direct, and collaborative, aimed at helping people build new skills and clearer direction in daily life.
How somatic work and online therapy come together
Somatic therapy notices how feelings live in the body. It might include tracking breath, naming tension, or gentle movement to help reduce stuckness. This approach can be helpful for people coping with trauma, stress, and strong emotional reactions.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on values and taking small committed steps. It helps people accept difficult thoughts while choosing actions that match what matters to them. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes being heard and understood, creating a supportive space where people can explore problems at their own pace.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss needs, goals, and preferences and then try methods that feel like a good fit. Clients and the therapist regularly check in to adjust techniques as needed so the work stays useful.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to access support from different locations. Many people find remote formats help them maintain momentum between sessions and practice new skills in real life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English