Marc Manning (He, Him)

Anxiety is often the nervous system's response to unresolved fear, trauma, or unmet needs, not a flaw to be eliminated. In our work together, I help clients identify the underlying patterns driving anxious symptoms, using insight-oriented and creative approaches to process what hasn't yet been integrated. As root causes are understood and worked through, nervous system regulation improves, allowing for a greater sense of safety, clarity, and capacity to engage with daily life.

As a gay male therapist, I bring both clinical training and lived experience to the work of supporting LGBTQIA+ clients. I understand, from the inside, the impact of growing up othered, navigating identity, relationships, and intimacy outside a heteronormative framework, and carrying trauma shaped by that experience. This perspective informs a practice that is affirming without being generic: attuned to the specific knots that form around queerness, shame, and belonging, and skilled at helping c

Anxiety is often the nervous system's response to unresolved fear, trauma, or unmet needs, not a flaw to be eliminated. In our work together, I help clients identify the underlying patterns driving anxious symptoms, using insight-oriented and creative approaches to process what hasn't yet been integrated. As root causes are understood and worked through, nervous system regulation improves, allowing for a greater sense of safety, clarity, and capacity to engage with daily life.

As a therapist who is also ADHD, I bring both clinical knowledge and lived understanding to this work. I know what it's like to live in a mind that doesn't follow linear paths, to carry years of misunderstood behavior, shame, or masking before getting language for what's actually happening. My approach treats ADHD not as a deficit to manage but as a different way of moving through the world, one with real gifts alongside real challenges, and helps clients build a relationship with their mi

My approach to parts work is rooted less in traditional IFS protocol and more in Jungian, archetypal psychology, drawing on decades of depth psychology rather than a manualized model. Parts aren't treated as fixed roles to map and manage, but as living figures with their own symbolic language, history, and wisdom. This lets the work move into more ambiguous, imagistic territory, honoring the unconscious as something to be in relationship with, not just organized.

My approach to CBT draws heavily on its roots in Buddhist thought, more than a manualized, worksheet-driven model. Cognitive distortions echo the Buddhist idea that suffering often comes from attachment to fixed stories about ourselves and reality; examining thoughts isn't about correcting errors, but about loosening identification with them. This blends cognitive work with a contemplative stance, helping clients relate to their thinking with more spaciousness, curiosity, and less reactivity.

My approach to depth therapy centers the unconscious as the primary engine of change, not just insight, but contact with what's symbolic, archetypal, and often unspoken. We work with dreams, imagery, and the language the psyche uses when it can't speak directly: metaphor, pattern, repetition. Rather than managing symptoms, depth work asks what they're pointing toward. It's slower, more ambiguous, and less linear than symptom-focused models, but it reaches material that surface-level approaches o