About Mara
Mara Dubois is a Licensed Professional Counselor who brings 24 years of clinical experience to her work. She focuses on practical help for people coping with stress, anxiety, and mood concerns. Mara emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental space where clients can speak freely about hard things.
She helps people who face trauma and abuse, self-esteem struggles, and worries related to identity and LGBT issues. She also supports those dealing with addictions, eating concerns, and relationship or intimacy-related issues.
Background and approach
Mara pays attention to both immediate coping needs and longer-term goals. Mara listens for patterns such as abandonment or attachment wounds, control and communication problems, or feelings of isolation and shame. She works with people around life changes like divorce, caregiving strain, career shifts, or questions about life purpose.
Practical steps and clearer priorities are common parts of her work. The sessions are collaborative. Mara helps clients name what matters most, try small changes, and track progress over time.
She aims to boost confidence and motivation while addressing distressing symptoms. Based in New Jersey, Mara brings steady experience and a straightforward style. Her approach is suited to people who want clear, usable strategies alongside a supportive therapeutic relationship.
Evidence-based approaches and online options
Many clients find benefit from structured, evidence-based techniques that focus on thoughts and behaviors. Cognitive-based methods help identify unhelpful thinking patterns and test new ways of thinking to reduce anxiety and low mood. These methods are useful for worry, stress, and mood regulation.Trauma-informed strategies focus on safety and pacing. They help people manage strong reactions, understand how past events affect current behavior, and build tolerance for difficult feelings. This approach is helpful for trauma, abuse, dissociation, and attachment wounds.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will work with each person to figure out which techniques match their needs, goals, and preferences, and will adjust the plan as progress is tracked. That collaborative process helps the work feel relevant and doable.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and deeper conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth or camera use is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing, shorter communications between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and maintain continuity despite travel or schedule changes.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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