About Maryann
Maryann Steiner is a Licensed Certified Social Worker (LCSW) based in New York with 35 years of experience. She listens carefully and helps people take practical first steps when life feels overwhelming. Maryann focuses on straightforward support for stress, anxiety, grief, depression, addiction concerns, and relationship or intimacy-related issues.
Maryann draws on client-centered methods to build a working relationship that feels respectful and collaborative. She uses cognitive behavioral tools to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and habits.
How Maryann works
Hypnotherapy and mindfulness techniques are offered when they fit a person's needs and goals. Her background includes many years providing psychotherapy and life coaching in medical settings, helping people manage chronic and acute medical diagnoses, accidents, and substance use concerns. She has experience with caregiving stress, aging issues, adoption and foster care matters, and family of origin problems.
Sessions aim to be practical and focused. Maryann works with each person to create a clear plan and to practice small changes between meetings. She pays attention to how emotions, behavior, and life demands interact so people can make steady progress.
Her approach is adaptable - she adjusts pace, language, and techniques to match what an individual needs. People looking for help with sleep, anger, self-esteem, career shifts, or coping with life changes will find straightforward, experience-based support.
Maryann lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Maryann works with
The areas below are the ones Maryann 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
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 35 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
Practical approaches for online therapy
Maryann uses client-centered therapy to create a respectful, collaborative space where the person's goals guide the work. This approach focuses on listening, reflecting, and shaping conversations so people feel heard and understood.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which helps people identify patterns of thinking and behavior that contribute to stress or depression. CBT offers clear tools and homework to practice new ways of responding between sessions, which many people find useful for problems like anxiety, sleep issues, or anger.
Choosing the right approach is part of the process. Maryann will work with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She adapts pace and techniques and checks in regularly to make sure the plan feels helpful and realistic.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows brief check-ins, and messaging supports short updates or reflective exercises between meetings. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy lives.
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