About Mariana
Mariana Scutaru is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, trauma, depression, and ADHD-related concerns. She speaks English, Spanish, and Romanian and practices from Pennsylvania. Her style is warm and direct, aimed at making therapy feel useful and understandable for busy lives.
She builds a calm, non-judgmental space where people can talk through painful memories and confusing feelings. Sessions focus on what is happening now and on practical steps that improve day-to-day functioning.
Background and approach
Mariana combines attention to emotions with simple tools to manage symptoms and responses. Her approach draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early bonds shape current relationships. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify patterns of thought and behavior that keep problems going.
Narrative elements help people reframe difficult stories about themselves and their past. Mariana has nine years of clinical experience working in community and university settings. She has supported people facing sexual abuse, family conflict, caregiving stress, and compassion fatigue, among other struggles.
That background informs a flexible way of working, tailored to each person’s priorities. In sessions she aims to balance emotional exploration with concrete coping strategies. People who want steady, practical work on relationship patterns, emotional pain, or life transitions may find her approach helpful.
Online approaches that combine emotion and skill building
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationship patterns affect current bonds and emotional responses; it helps people understand why they react strongly in close relationships and how to create more supported interactions. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person in their own healing, offering active listening and acceptance so someone can explore feelings at their own pace and clarify personal goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts influence actions and mood, and introduces practical skills to change unhelpful patterns and reduce symptoms.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit best based on needs, goals, and preferences. That might mean focusing on emotions at first and then adding CBT skills for daily management, or weaving narrative elements to change the story someone tells about themselves.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls are good for deeper conversation and face-to-face interaction. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick support, brief coaching, or keeping momentum between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different life situations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English, Spanish, Romanian
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