Stacy Marsh, LMFT, MA, JD brings a rare blend of clinical expertise and legal experience to her work as a psychotherapist for attorneys and high achieving individuals. A Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California, she has extensive experience helping individuals, couples, and families navigate anxiety, self doubt, depression, trauma, relational stress, burnout and the unique pressures of professional life. Stacy's therapeutic approach is highly personalized and integrates evidence-based approaches—including positive psychology, EMDR, ACT and somatic practices—within a compassionate, collaborative, and holistic framework that empowers clients to achieve deep and lasting change.
Before entering the field of psychology, Stacy practiced law for 15 years. She earned her J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School and built her legal career at top institutions, including Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP and as Assistant Vice President & Legal Counsel at Pacific Life. In these roles, she represented Fortune 500 companies and high-level executives in complex securities, employment and business litigation matters. This background gives her firsthand understanding of the high-stakes environment attorneys face and the ways professional identity, performance pressure, and adversarial dynamics can impact mental health and relationships.
Today, Stacy leverages her dual credentials to provide psychotherapy uniquely attuned to the lived experiences of attorneys. She recognizes that the analytical training and perfectionism that serve lawyers well in practice can also hinder emotional well-being and connection outside of work. By combining her legal insight with her clinical training, Stacy offers attorneys a therapeutic space that is both deeply empathetic and grounded in an insider’s understanding of the legal profession. Her goal is to help attorneys cultivate resilience, find balance, and thrive both personally and professionally.
I offer in person therapy sessions in a lovely and calming therapeutic office in Newport Beach. I also offer online sessions.
I became a therapist after a 15 year legal career in order to pursue my passion for psychology and helping people improve their well being. In addition to being a licensed therapist, I am also a certified executive coach with extensive training and expertise in positive psychology, neurobiology and transformational coaching practices. I also serve as an Adjunct Faculty member at Pepperdine University, where I teach graduate level courses in Theories of Psychotherapy as well as supervise student clinical work as a practicum instructor.
High-achieving individuals often experience unseen struggles including self-doubt, imposter syndrome, burn out, out of balance perfectionism and feelings of personal inadequacy, despite professional success. Problems such as anxiety, depression, unresolved trauma and eating disorders can take over our lives and feel all consuming. I help clients separate themselves from these problems and deepen their understanding of how problems influence them and how they can take back control. Clients are empowered to rediscover themselves, experience deep healing and get their lives back through powerful conversations and holistic approaches.
My work is highly-personalized and selectively incorporates evidence-based practices within a strong foundation of accepting, supportive and compassionate therapy. My work is primarily grounded in narrative therapy, which is a non-pathologizing and empowering therapeutic approach. I often integrate neurobiological approaches to access and align your whole self (mind, body & emotion) through EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy), somatic practices and EMDR, facilitating deep, embodied and lasting change and healing.
