About Maryjo
Maryjo Proietta Halpern is a licensed social worker who brings 30 years of clinical experience to her practice in New York. She is credentialed as an LCSW-R and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. Her approach is steady and patient, aimed at helping people feel understood and heard.
She uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. She also draws on client-centered principles to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space where people can speak freely.
How Maryjo works
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to identify unhelpful thinking and try practical changes that can reduce distress. Common issues Maryjo helps with include trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, social anxiety, and post-traumatic stress. She also addresses communication and control problems, forgiveness, guilt and shame, and the strain of divorce or separation.
The work typically focuses on concrete steps people can take to feel more in control of daily life. Maryjo aims to work collaboratively, listening first and then building a plan with each person. Sessions emphasize clear goals, gentle reflection, and skills that can be practiced between meetings.
Her style is calm and direct, suited to people who want practical tools alongside emotional understanding. Therapy sessions are offered in English from her New York practice. She supports people who want steady, experience-based guidance for lasting change.
Maryjo lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Maryjo works with
The areas below are the ones Maryjo selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
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Training and background
| Register | LCSW-R |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 30 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Maryjo uses attachment-based ideas to understand how early relationship patterns affect current behavior and feelings. This approach helps people notice recurring relationship patterns and try new ways of relating that feel safer and more satisfying.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing practical changes. CBT is useful for managing anxiety, low mood, social fears, and many everyday problems by breaking them into small, workable steps.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. She collaborates with each person to match methods to their needs, goals, and preferences, and adapts plans as progress is made.
Online sessions are available as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video is useful for a full conversational experience, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can serve for quick check-ins or shorter conversations. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and try different formats until one feels comfortable.
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