About Mary
Mary Ann Yarbrough is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She focuses on practical steps that reduce overwhelm and build on what already works in a person’s life. Mary Ann aims to create a straightforward, respectful space where people can talk through their concerns and find clearer ways forward.
She listens first and asks questions to understand each person's story. Sessions focus on problems the person wants to change, such as coping with life transitions, grief, or work and relationship strain.
Background and approach
Mary Ann uses everyday language and gentle direction to help people notice strengths and try small experiments that can make a difference. Her approach draws on client-centered work that keeps the person’s goals central. She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, and dialectical behavior therapy skills when emotional regulation is a key concern.
Mindfulness and solution-focused tools are used to build calm and to create concrete steps toward goals. Mary Ann has six years of experience as a clinician and has worked with people facing trauma, addiction, ADHD, eating and body image issues, parenting stress, and compassion fatigue.
She supports those dealing with abandonment, attachment, adoption and foster care questions, and a range of relationship and communication problems. Sessions are offered in English and Mary Ann practices from Connecticut. She aims to collaborate on clear, achievable goals so people can leave sessions with simple next steps and a sense of progress.
Therapeutic approaches and how online therapy fits
Mary Ann uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot and change thoughts and behaviors that worsen anxiety and stress. CBT breaks problems into smaller parts so someone can test new ways of thinking and acting and see what helps.She also uses dialectical behavior therapy skills when strong emotions or impulsive reactions are a concern. DBT-based tools teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication to improve day-to-day coping.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Mary Ann will talk with the client about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked in the past. Together they shape a plan and try methods that fit the person’s needs, adjusting as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and try different formats until they find what works best.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English
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