About Mary
Mary Verberne is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) practicing in Louisiana with 12 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, depression, grief, and stress. Mary aims to create a calm, respectful space where clients can talk through what matters to them and find practical steps forward.
Mary draws on methods like client-centered work, cognitive behavioral strategies, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and narrative techniques. She blends listening with clear, goal-focused conversations.
How Mary works
Sessions often include looking at thoughts and behaviors, practicing simple skills, and naming patterns that keep problems active. Her background includes supporting people through relationship strain, parenting pressures, career shifts, addiction concerns, trauma and abuse, and changes that come with aging. She also assists with intimacy-related worries, sleep problems, anger, and compassion fatigue.
Mary pays attention to how past experiences shape current reactions and habits. In sessions she uses straightforward language and practical exercises. Clients can expect collaborative planning, homework when useful, and regular checks on progress.
The work moves at a pace set by the client while aiming for tools that help day-to-day functioning. Mary offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules according to the therapist's availability.
Mary lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
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
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Louisiana |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How Mary Uses Practical Approaches Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person's experience. The therapist reflects what is said, helps people clarify values and goals, and supports choices that fit the client's life. This approach helps when someone needs a safe space to sort feelings and priorities.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect mood. Sessions involve identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing small changes to see what helps. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and managing reactions to stress.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple awareness skills to reduce reactivity and improve focus. Practices can include brief breathing work and noticing thoughts without judgment, which supports coping with stress and emotional ups and downs.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to pick methods that match goals, preferences, and what feels doable. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and text are useful for quick check-ins, short reflections, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make scheduling more flexible and therapy easier to fit into daily life.
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