About Mary
Mary Verberne is a licensed clinical social worker with twelve years of experience helping people manage anxiety, stress, grief, and relationship strain. She works with adults on practical steps to feel steadier and more in control of everyday life. Her approach is calm and respectful, and she draws on familiar therapy methods to support short- and longer-term goals.
Mary emphasizes clear, usable strategies rather than jargon. She helps clients identify unhelpful thinking patterns and replace them with small experiments that build confidence.
Background and approach
Sessions often include skill practice, reflective conversation, and gentle goal-setting that fits a person’s day-to-day demands. Her work also addresses harder experiences like trauma, addiction, and major life changes. Mary listens for how past events shape current reactions and helps people find ways to reduce symptoms that interfere with sleep, work, or relationships.
She supports people coping with caregiver strain, grief, and issues around self-worth. Mary uses Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, mindfulness tools, motivational interviewing, and narrative methods to shape each person’s plan. She adapts these approaches to match a client’s pace and preferences rather than following a fixed script.
This makes sessions feel collaborative and goal-focused. Based in Louisiana, Mary offers therapy by phone, video, live chat, or text messaging for adults who prefer remote care. She explains how the subscription and scheduling system works and helps newcomers get set up so they can begin working on the concerns that matter most to them.
Practical approaches for online therapy and anxiety
Mary commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify thoughts and behaviors that feed anxiety and then test new ways of responding. CBT focuses on skill-building and simple experiments that can reduce worry and improve sleep. Client-Centered Therapy is another part of her work, where the person’s goals guide the pace and content of sessions and the therapist listens closely to what matters most.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Mary will talk with each person about their goals, try techniques that match those goals, and adjust methods based on what feels most helpful. That means sessions can shift between practical skills, reflective work, or mindfulness exercises depending on progress and preference.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging to make care easier to fit into a busy life. Video is useful for longer, face-to-face conversations; phone calls can be simpler when bandwidth is limited; live chat and text let people check in between sessions or have shorter check-ins during a break. These options provide flexibility so adults can work on anxiety, stress, grief, or relationship issues in ways that fit their schedule and comfort.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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