About Merion
Merion Haworth is a licensed clinical social worker in New Mexico with 30 years of practice. She speaks plainly and meets people where they are, offering steady support for common struggles like stress, anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, trauma and ADHD. Her style aims to be respectful, compassionate, and practical for everyday challenges.
She adapts conversations and plans to each person's needs instead of using one fixed method. Sessions focus on clear goals and tools you can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Merion also brings experience from school settings and from working with adults facing life changes and medical challenges. Her background includes long experience with emotional wounds and trauma, and she uses different therapy approaches to match the issue at hand.
That can include looking at how thoughts influence feelings, exploring personal history, or focusing on small, doable changes that make daily life easier. Merion describes faith as part of her own life and can incorporate a client's spiritual perspective when it is important to them. She aims to listen first, then help people find steps that feel right for their situation.
Clients typically find practical strategies, clear communication, and a steady therapeutic presence. The work often covers mood shifts, panic or obsessive thoughts, relationship communication, caregiving strain, and the everyday disruptions of ADHD. Merion helps people identify what matters most and build manageable plans to move forward.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a respectful, understanding relationship. The therapist follows the client's lead, helping people identify what matters and supporting choices that feel right for them.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors influence feelings. It breaks problems into manageable steps and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and handle impulsivity often associated with ADHD.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Merion will discuss goals, preferences, and daily routines with each person and together decide which methods to try first. She adjusts the plan as work progresses to match what actually helps.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and teaching skills, phone can be easier when bandwidth is low, live chat can work for shorter check-ins, and messaging lets people share updates between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue consistent work no matter where someone is located in New Mexico.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- New Mexico
- Languages
- English
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