About Mary
Dr. Mary Ann Meli is a Florida psychologist with 35 years of professional experience. She focuses on practical help for stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, depression, and life changes.
She aims to treat people with respect, sensitivity, and compassion while tailoring conversations to each person's needs. Her approach is straightforward. Sessions are a place to talk through what feels overwhelming and to build manageable steps forward.
She uses methods that help people identify unhelpful thinking, practice new skills, and bring mindful awareness to daily life.
Background and approach
Over three decades of work mean she has seen many kinds of struggles. That experience informs how she adapts tools to fit each person's situation. Whether the issue is sleep trouble, addiction, relationship strain, or coping after loss, she draws from a range of approaches to match the moment.
She also supports people dealing with chronic health problems, caregiver stress, aging concerns, and challenges linked to neurodiversity. She pays attention to communication problems, life purpose questions, and midlife transitions when those come up in sessions. Conversations aim to be clear and collaborative.
The goal is to help people leave sessions with one or two concrete things to try. Progress is paced to fit each person's life and responsibilities.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience. It helps people feel heard and guides conversations so they can find their own answers to tough problems.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It helps with anxiety, depression, obsessions, and compulsions by teaching practical ways to change thinking patterns and behaviors.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus. It can help with stress, sleep issues, and coping during difficult life changes.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to try methods that match goals and preferences. Plans are adjusted over time based on what is helpful.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video allows face-to-face conversation when more interaction is useful. Phone sessions are a good fit when bandwidth or visual focus is limited. Chat and text messaging can be used for brief check-ins, skill practice, or when a shorter interaction fits a busy day.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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