About Mariah
Mariah Stockard helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, and grief. She supports those coping with trauma, eating and body image struggles, parenting strains, and the challenges of ADHD and bipolar mood concerns. Mariah is a licensed clinical social worker with five years of professional experience in Florida.
She writes plainly and listens closely so people feel heard from the first session. Mariah uses a calm, straightforward style.
How Mariah works
Sessions focus on practical skills and clear steps people can try between meetings. She blends talk therapy with teaching coping tools and short exercises that can reduce day-to-day overwhelm. The aim is better functioning and small, steady improvements over time.
Her background includes working in community mental health settings across a range of concerns. That work shaped her focus on helping people process past and recent stressful or traumatic events. Mariah draws on approaches that center on relationships, personal stories, and behavior change to make therapy relevant to everyday life.
In sessions she encourages openness and curiosity about patterns that cause pain, like attachment or communication difficulties. She helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try new ways of relating to others. Homework is practical and focused on immediate problems.
Mariah welcomes conversations about priorities and goals at the start. She works collaboratively to set a plan and checks in regularly to adjust it. People who want a down-to-earth therapist who offers structure and empathy may find her approach helpful.
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What Mariah works with
The areas below are the ones Mariah selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
How attachment, client-centered, and CBT work online
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early and current relationship patterns shape reactions today. Online sessions can help identify attachment-related triggers and practice new ways of connecting with partners or loved ones.Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's own goals and pace. The therapist listens without judgment and follows what matters most to the client, which can be especially helpful when talking through life changes or emotional overwhelm.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks down problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions. In virtual sessions clients learn simple exercises to test unhelpful thoughts and try behavioral experiments between meetings to see what changes.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. Mariah works collaboratively to pick methods that fit a person's needs, goals, and comfort level, and she adjusts the plan as work progresses.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth is limited, live chat for quicker check-ins, and text messaging for ongoing support. These formats make it easier to schedule sessions around work, caregiving, or busy days while keeping therapy practical and focused.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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