About Mari
Mari Broman, LMSW, helps people manage stress and anxiety and cope with life changes. She works with concerns such as depression, anger, self-esteem, relationship and family difficulties, grief, and issues linked to work and career. Her practice also addresses addictions, bipolar mood concerns, ADHD, and intimacy-related struggles.
Mari uses a practical, person-centered style. Sessions focus on clear goals and small steps. She listens for what matters to each person and helps them build skills they can use between meetings.
Background and approach
Over thirty-six years of practice in Michigan have shaped her approach. Mari blends ideas from client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and psychodynamic thinking. That mix lets her tailor sessions to the problem at hand rather than following a single script.
In a typical meeting she helps people identify patterns that keep problems going. Then she offers exercises, reflective questions, or brief behavioral experiments to try. She also supports people facing major life transitions, caregiver stress, blended family issues, and illness-related concerns.
Mari aims for straightforward therapy that feels manageable. Her style is compassionate and goal-oriented. She partners with clients to build coping tools and clearer next steps for real life changes.
How her approaches work in online therapy
Client-centered therapy puts the person and their goals at the center of sessions. The therapist listens carefully, reflects what she hears, and helps people find their own solutions; this works well for concerns like self-esteem, relationship stress, and coping with life changes.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses practical exercises and small experiments to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change unhelpful habits.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention practices and grounding strategies. Those tools help when stress, anxiety, or anger feel overwhelming and when someone needs short, usable ways to calm their thinking.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, try methods that match those needs, and adjust the plan as progress is seen. Clients and the therapist decide together what feels most helpful.
Online sessions offer flexibility for busy lives. Video calls let people use visual cues and work face-to-face across distances. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat or text-based messaging works well for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or when written reflection helps. These options make it easier to fit therapy into daily routines and to keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 36 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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