About Mariana
Mariana Mackinnon is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and ADHD-related challenges. She speaks English and Spanish and draws on eight years of clinical experience to offer practical, down-to-earth support. Her style is warm and direct, focused on small changes that make daily life easier.
Mariana grew up bilingual in a Latino household and spent time living and working in Madrid, Spain.
Background and approach
Those experiences shaped her sense of how culture and identity show up in struggles with belonging, expectations, and life transitions. She brings that cultural awareness into ordinary sessions, listening for the parts of a person that matter most. Her approach blends client-centered work with evidence-based tools.
Sessions often include skills for managing strong emotions, strategies to tackle unhelpful thought patterns, and attention to values and goals that guide decisions. She also uses trauma-informed methods when past events are getting in the way of the present. Mariana focuses on concrete goals like improving sleep, reducing impulsive reactions, handling overwhelm, or repairing communication in close relationships.
She helps people build routines, practice new responses, and track small wins between sessions. Conversations are collaborative and paced to what each person can manage. People meet with her by phone, video, live chat, or text-based messaging.
She works from Florida and explains options in English or Spanish. Beginning therapy typically starts with a short matching questionnaire and scheduling based on therapist availability.
How Mariana Uses Evidence-Based Approaches Online
Mariana commonly draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small committed steps toward them while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. ACT can help when life feels stuck or values and actions are out of sync.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify patterns of thinking that lead to distress and to practice different responses. CBT is useful for worries, low mood, and behavior patterns that keep problems going. When trauma is part of the picture, she integrates trauma-informed techniques to reduce distress tied to past events.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Mariana works collaboratively to choose methods that fit each person’s goals, pace, and preferences. She will talk through options and adjust techniques as progress is seen and needs change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is close to an in-person visit and works well for skill practice and emotional work. Phone calls or live chat can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Text messaging supports brief check-ins, reminders, and tracking tasks between sessions, offering flexibility for busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Depression
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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