About Mara
Mara Sambugaro Framesqui is a licensed mental health counselor in New York who focuses on helping people manage anxiety and stress. She brings five years of practice to sessions and works with individuals seeking clearer thinking, steadier mood, and improved relationships. She aims to help clients take small, realistic steps toward feeling better each day.
Mara centers sessions on a person's strengths and life history. She listens for patterns that keep people stuck and then offers practical ways to try something different.
Background and approach
Conversations move from understanding past hurts to testing new behaviors that can reduce worry and improve connection. She has experience supporting people with depression, mood concerns, and struggles around self-worth. She also addresses attachment and relationship difficulties, including abandonment worries and communication problems.
Her work touches on complex issues such as codependency, narcissism, and obsessive-compulsive patterns when they affect day-to-day life. Mara speaks English, Italian, and Portuguese, which can help when cultural background affects how someone experiences symptoms. She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide sessions and tailors the pace to each person's comfort.
Practical tools are part of the process. Clients can expect discussions about coping skills, ways to rethink distressing thoughts, and small behavioral experiments to test new approaches. The goal is steady progress toward clearer thinking and more satisfying relationships.
For people who want change without rushing, Mara offers a calm, steady approach that balances empathy with clear steps forward.
Approaches that guide online therapy and how they help
Mara uses evidence-based techniques that focus on changing unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. One approach helps people identify and challenge anxious thoughts, then practice different responses to reduce worry and avoidance. This approach is useful for generalized anxiety, obsessions, and compulsive patterns.Another approach centers on understanding attachment and relationship patterns. It looks at how early connections shape current reactions and offers ways to try new communication and boundary-setting skills. This can help with problems like abandonment fears, codependency, and communication difficulties.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Mara collaborates with each person to decide which techniques fit their needs, goals, and comfort. She adjusts methods over time so the plan evolves with progress and feedback.
Online therapy offers flexibility that fits busy lives. Video calls let conversations feel more like in-person meetings, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is low, live chat suits quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule consistent appointments and practice new skills in real time.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English, Italian, Portuguese
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