About Mari
Mari Broman is a licensed social worker with 36 years of clinical experience who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, addiction, and relationship strain. She listens closely and aims to make sessions feel straightforward and useful. Her approach is warm and practical, focused on small changes that add up.
Mari works with people facing life transitions such as career shifts, grief, divorce, and caregiving strain. She also supports those struggling with self-esteem, anger, intimacy concerns, bipolar mood patterns, and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
Conversations are aimed at finding concrete next steps rather than only talking about feelings. Her counseling style blends techniques many people find easy to use in daily life. Mari draws on client-centered methods to follow each person's priorities.
She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and develop different responses. Mindfulness strategies and motivational interviewing are part of sessions when clients want to build focus, cope with change, or increase motivation for change. Mari also brings psychodynamic ideas into the work to help people notice long-standing patterns that affect current relationships.
Sessions are conversational and paced to match each person's needs. Mari aims to empower people to better manage emotions, improve communication, and make realistic plans for work and family life. She practices in Michigan and speaks English.
Approaches and online therapy options
Client-centered therapy focuses on the client's goals and priorities and creates space for people to lead the conversation and set the pace. This approach helps when someone wants a supportive listener and guidance tailored to their values and everyday life.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going and teaches practical skills to change them. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and ADHD-related challenges where planning, organization, and managing distractions are part of the work.
Mindfulness therapy introduces simple attention and breathing practices that reduce reactivity and help with focus, emotional regulation, and coping during stressful moments.
Mari treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about their goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust the plan as needed. People often combine elements from different approaches to get what works best for them.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit varied schedules. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation; phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat or text messaging can be helpful for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or when a shorter, flexible touchpoint is needed. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family, and caregiving responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 36 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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