About Mary
Mary Verberne is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Louisiana. She brings 12 years of experience helping people work through depression, anxiety, stress, addiction, grief, and ADHD. Her approach is calm and straightforward.
She aims to help people make practical changes that fit their lives. She uses a faith-informed perspective when clients want that included, while keeping sessions focused on the client's goals. Mary listens for what matters most and helps set small, achievable steps.
Background and approach
Conversations often cover coping skills, communication patterns, and ways to handle daily demands. Mary draws on several evidence-based methods to tailor care. She blends client-centered listening with strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness to address unhelpful thoughts and habits.
Motivational interviewing and narrative techniques are used to clarify values and rewrite difficult personal stories. Sessions can address a wide range of concerns including relationship issues, parenting stress, sleeping problems, anger, self-esteem, career questions, and coping with life changes. She also supports people dealing with trauma, intimacy-related issues, compassion fatigue, and co-occurring problems.
Her work is collaborative and practical. Clients leave with specific tools and short-term goals to try between sessions. The focus is on making changes that feel doable in everyday life.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on deep listening and building a trusting relationship. The therapist follows the client's lead, reflects what she hears, and helps people identify what matters most to them. This approach helps when someone needs a calm space to sort out feelings and priorities.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Sessions often include simple exercises and small homework tasks to try between meetings, which can help with anxiety, depression, sleep, and ADHD-related routines.
Mindfulness therapy brings attention to the present moment through brief awareness practices. It can reduce reactivity, improve focus, and support stress management when used alongside other strategies.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose approaches that match their goals and day-to-day life. Together they review what helps and adjust the plan as needed.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls work well for in-depth conversations, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and messaging lets people share updates or get brief coaching between meetings. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy schedules and varied routines.
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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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