About Mariana
Mariana Mackinnon is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Florida who focuses on helping people manage anxiety and other life stressors. She speaks English and Spanish and draws on eight years of clinical experience to help clients feel less stuck and more able to move forward. Mariana aims for clear, practical work in sessions.
She helps people who are coping with anxiety, stress, depression, grief, relationship strain, compassion fatigue, and life changes.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing identity questions, addiction concerns, chronic illness, and intimacy or body-image struggles. Her approach centers on helping people notice what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to change unhelpful thinking and from acceptance and commitment therapy to build willingness and action.
She also uses skills from dialectical behavior therapy for emotion regulation and grounding techniques that can help with trauma reactions. Mariana brings cultural awareness to her work and understands the experience of navigating more than one cultural world. She focuses on what each individual brings into the room and tailors interventions to match those life realities.
Sessions are collaborative and paced to fit each person’s needs. People who connect with Mariana often want straightforward guidance, clear coping strategies, and support sorting through tough transitions. She helps clients set realistic goals and practices that can be used between sessions to manage symptoms and build toward meaningful change.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Mariana uses cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help people identify and change patterns of thinking and behavior that worsen anxiety and depression. CBT is hands-on and focuses on practical skills you can use between sessions to feel more in control. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is another approach she uses to help people clarify personal values and take small, committed steps toward them even when strong feelings are present. ACT can be useful for stress, anxiety, and navigating life changes.She also incorporates techniques from dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) for managing intense emotions and improving distress tolerance. Together these methods give a mix of thought-focused work, values-based action, and emotion skills. Mariana treats choosing the right approach as a team process; she will work with clients to decide which tools fit their goals and adjust as needed over time.
Online therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video is helpful for full-session work and teaching skills, phone can be easier when internet bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can support shorter check-ins or quick skill practice. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and continue consistent work between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Depression
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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