About Mariana
Mariana Scutaru is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship strain, and parenting challenges. She speaks English, Spanish, and Romanian and practices from Pennsylvania. Her approach is warm and direct, aimed at helping people feel understood and find practical ways to cope.
She believes early emotional wounds can shape how people relate and react. In sessions she makes space to talk about painful experiences and how they play out today.
Background and approach
That often means naming patterns and learning small changes that reduce emotional pain. Her work draws on attachment-focused ideas to look at how relationships affect feelings and behavior. She also uses client-centered methods to follow each person’s pace and priorities.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools are added when concrete skills are useful for coping with anxiety or depression. Mariana has nine years of clinical experience in community and university settings. She has supported people dealing with trauma and abuse, intimacy issues, caregiver stress, codependency, and complicated family dynamics.
Her background includes helping people process shame, guilt, abandonment, and impulsivity. Sessions can include talking through difficult memories, practicing new communication ways, and building daily coping skills. She helps people set goals for change and checks in on progress over time.
Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session that fits the person’s needs.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early connections shape current relationships. It helps people notice how attachment patterns show up in stress and conflict, and learn different ways to connect and respond. Client-Centered Therapy centers on listening and following the person's pace; it helps when someone needs acceptance and room to make sense of feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to reduce anxiety and improve mood.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to goals and try different strategies together. Over time she helps adjust methods so they fit the person's needs, preferences, and daily life.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people work face to face when needed, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text can work for brief check-ins or when typing feels more comfortable. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family, and other commitments while keeping the focus on practical steps and emotional understanding.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English, Spanish, Romanian
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