Marile Yvonne Shack, MA, LCPC, NCC

Marile Shack has a passion to see the hurting of all ages healed. In addition to seeing them healed she desires to see them come into the fullness of their God given purpose and potential. She has spent her career in the helping profession where she has worked twenty-eight years providing supportive counseling to children, adolescents and families in the Head Start Pre-K program in Montgomery County and as a Pupil Personnel Worker in Prince Georges County.

She attended Regent University where she earned a master’s in Human Services Counseling and a Certificate in Advance Counseling Studies. She is a State of Maryland License Graduate Professional Counselor, and is National Board Certified. Marile has also spent many years counseling, training and mentoring mentors in her local church.

Marile believes that her calling and her training is a gift to the body of Christ and to be used as a tool of service to others. Also because she understands that the counseling experience itself might be difficult for the new clients Marile is intent on creating a counseling environment where clients feel safe and unconditionally accepted where they can find the path to healing and deliverance.

The scope of her counseling includes: Adolescents, Pre-Marriage, Marriage, Depression, Anxiety, Family, Males, Females, sexual abuse, Domestic Abuse, Sexual Abuse, ADHD, Anger, Adjustment Disorder, self-mutilation, Bipolar,Oppositional Defiant Behaviors, and issues related to low-self esteem.

Counsels: ages 12+, premarital, individual males, individual females, parenting, couples, marriage, family.

Works with: Blended families, adoption, PTSD, eating disorders, substance abuse (drugs & alcohol) - family member, ADD/ADHD, post-abortion, military, Gestalt therapy, personality disorders, children with disabilities, learning disabilities.

Specializes in: Premarital, individual males, individual females, teens (12-18), couples, marriage, domestic violence - survivor (past), trauma, sex abuse - survivor, childhood sex abuse - abuser, childhood sex abuse - adult survivor, depression/anxiety, infidelity, grief/loss, anger, divorce, play therapy, mood disorders, CBT, narcissistic personality - partner of, bipolar.