Marley Moreira-Rivera

Marley Moreira is a Mental Health Counselor serving adult individuals located in New York. Her practice is collaborative and humanistic with a focus on empowering clients to reclaim their power over their lives. Marley provides clients with reflective conversations to increase their self-awareness and self-esteem, skills to learn how to regulate emotions, techniques to heal the mind and body connection, and a nurturing space where safety and human connection are the priority; all these through the lens of liberation practices to help her clients understand how the intersection of their identities is impacting their situation.

Marley integrates different modalities to explore thoughts patterns, core beliefs and the effects of trauma in their mind and body, using a person-centered approach. Some of these modalities are Internal Family Systems (IFS), Attachment and Strengths Based Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), and Mindfulness. These modalities are used taking into consideration each client’s cultural background and personal preferences.

Originally from Puerto Rico, Marley has a background as a financial analyst and volunteered for different non-profit organizations providing services to marginalized communities on the island. Following her interest in psychology, she moved to New York and Received her Mental Health Counseling Master’s at New York University, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development.

Marley has experience working as a psychotherapist for a community clinic in Manhattan where she was exposed to diverse clientele suffering from chronic mental illnesses. She also worked with children and families involved in the foster care system. These experiences impacted her therapeutic approach, centering her practice on working with BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ youth to overcome barriers caused by marginalization and oppression.

She is currently working as a clinician at Resilience Lab in New York, offering tele-health services.