About Mari
Mari DeRienzo is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 39 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, and relationship concerns in a direct and compassionate way. Mari aims to make the first steps toward therapy feel manageable for someone who is worried or unsure.
She creates a calm space where people can talk about thoughts and feelings without judgment. Sessions are conversational and practical, with attention to what feels most urgent to the person in front of her.
Background and approach
That can mean talking through parenting struggles, intimacy-related concerns, grief, or feeling overwhelmed by life changes. Mari uses a mix of clear techniques and client-led work. She draws on client-centered methods to listen and reflect, and on cognitive behavioral strategies to identify and change unhelpful thinking.
Motivational interviewing and solution-focused tools help set small goals and keep progress realistic. Her broad experience also includes work on anger, compassion fatigue, ADHD, substance issues, and family of origin problems. She is comfortable addressing identity and LGBT concerns, communication problems, and complicated situations like infidelity or issues tied to alternative sexual cultures.
Mari practices in New Jersey and offers therapy in English. She emphasizes steady, practical steps and tailors her approach to each person’s needs and life circumstances.
How Mari Uses Practical Approaches in Online Sessions
Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and understanding the person’s experience. The therapist reflects what’s said and follows the client’s lead to build trust and clarify goals. This approach helps when someone needs space to talk through emotions or make sense of family and relationship stresses.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. In sessions Mari helps identify unhelpful thinking patterns and practices small changes that can reduce anxiety and improve daily functioning. Solution-focused techniques add short-term goal setting so people can see quick steps forward and track progress.
Finding the right mix of techniques is a collaborative process. Mari works with each person to decide which approaches fit their needs, goals, and preferences, and adjusts the plan as change happens. The work is paced according to what feels manageable for the individual.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low, and live chat or text-based messaging provide quick check-ins or brief coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into different schedules and routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 39 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey, Arizona
- Languages
- English
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