About Mary
Mary Fiumara is a licensed clinical social worker with 40 years of experience helping people through hard emotional times. She focuses on practical support for stress, anxiety, depression, eating concerns, and low self-esteem. Mary aims to make conversations feel steady and understandable for someone who is worried and overwhelmed.
Mary listens for the everyday patterns that make problems stick. She helps people notice unhelpful thinking, try different ways of coping, and practice clearer communication.
How Mary works
Sessions introduce doable steps to reduce anxiety, improve mood, and address body image or eating-related struggles. Her work emphasizes real-life changes rather than jargon. Mary spends time on setting small goals, rehearsing skills in session, and checking what actually helps between meetings.
She pays attention to how guilt, shame, loneliness, and midlife concerns affect daily life. Over four decades, Mary has supported people dealing with social anxiety, communication problems, and the stresses that come with life transitions. She uses an individualized approach, adjusting pace and focus to fit each person's needs.
The goal is better coping, clearer thinking, and stronger self-understanding. Sessions are offered in English from a California practice. Mary aims to create an accepting atmosphere where clients can talk through feelings, learn new strategies, and move toward practical improvements in their day-to-day life.
What Mary works with
The areas below are the ones Mary selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Eating disorders
- Self esteem
Also listed
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 40 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Mary uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on changing unhelpful thinking and building practical coping skills. Cognitive approaches help people identify and test thinking errors that fuel anxiety and low mood, then practice different responses that reduce distress. Behavioral strategies target actions and routines - for example breaking tasks into manageable steps, building activity that improves mood, and changing patterns that maintain avoidance or eating concerns.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Mary works with each person to decide which techniques fit their goals, preferences, and everyday life. She adjusts methods over time, reviewing what helps and shifting focus as needs change.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let sessions feel more like in-person meetings and support visual cues, while phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a quicker check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for short updates, skill practice between sessions, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep progress moving forward.
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