About Mara
Mara Dubois is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in New Jersey with 24 years of clinical experience. She focuses on everyday struggles like stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship worries. She also supports people facing phobias and issues tied to identity, such as LGBT concerns.
Mara uses straightforward, evidence-based techniques to help people manage symptoms and build coping skills. Sessions aim to be practical and focused on what matters now, whether that is reducing panic, improving sleep, or managing mood swings.
Background and approach
She works with people on addictions, eating concerns, and changes in life direction. Her approach centers on creating a respectful, nonjudgmental space. People are invited to talk through difficult feelings and to try small changes between sessions.
This therapist emphasizes collaboration - goals are set together and progress is reviewed regularly. Mara has experience addressing attachment and abandonment issues, body image, caregiver stress, and communication problems. She also helps with grief from divorce or separation, forgiveness work, and the guilt and shame that can follow trauma.
Sessions can include short-term problem-solving or longer work on patterns that repeat across relationships. Mara supports people navigating career stresses, financial worries, and questions about life purpose. She aims to help clients regain a sense of control and move toward a more manageable daily life.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online care
Many of Mara's methods draw on broadly used evidence-based techniques that help people manage symptoms and build new skills. Cognitive-style approaches focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-world experiments to reduce anxiety and phobic responses. Behavioral strategies involve gradual, guided exposure and practical tasks to lower avoidance and increase confidence in feared situations. Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist and client discuss goals, preferences, and what feels manageable, then try methods together and adjust as needed. This negotiation helps match therapeutic tasks to day-to-day life and makes work between sessions useful and achievable. Online therapy offers flexible ways to stay connected. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is a concern. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, homework conversations, and shorter progress updates that fit into busy schedules. These options make it simpler to keep momentum and try techniques in real-world moments.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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