About Mary
Mary Kay Zayani is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 25 years of experience. She offers steady, compassionate support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, relationship pain, grief, career crossroads, or struggles with self-esteem and body image. She helps clients name what feels hard and breaks big problems into manageable steps.
Sessions are conversational and focused on practical ways to cope. Mary Kay listens, soothes, and helps people find their own answers rather than telling them what to do.
Background and approach
Her work weaves together attachment-based ideas, client-centered listening, and cognitive-behavioral techniques. That means she pays attention to how early relationships shape current feelings, follows each person's lead in session, and uses simple thinking-and-behavior tools to reduce distress. Mary Kay also draws on dialectical skills to help manage intense emotions and on existential themes when people face meaning questions or life transitions.
She supports those dealing with addiction, intimacy issues, family conflict, parenting strains, and coping after loss. People who prefer a calm, validating presence often find her approach helpful. She frames therapy as collaborative work and focuses on building skills for emotion regulation, communication, and clearer decision making.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-based work focuses on how early caregiving relationships shape current feelings and patterns. Online sessions use that lens to notice relationship patterns, repair trust ruptures, and practice new ways of relating in everyday life.Client-centered therapy emphasizes being heard and accepted. In remote sessions the therapist follows the client's lead, listens deeply, and helps people clarify their goals and values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks down thoughts, feelings, and behaviors into specific steps to change unhelpful patterns, with homework and practical strategies people can try between sessions.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with the client to identify what feels most useful based on symptoms, goals, and personal preferences, and will adjust methods as needs change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and practicing skills, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can fit a quick check-in, and messaging supports brief updates or ongoing coaching. These options make scheduling easier and let people fit therapy into busy lives while still working toward real change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- California, New York
- Languages
- English
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