About Mari
Mari Broman is a licensed clinical social worker with 36 years of experience who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, anger, and phobias. She works with clients coping with grief, addictions, relationship and intimacy concerns, and life changes. Mari also supports those dealing with ADHD, compassion fatigue, career struggles, and issues tied to caregiving and aging.
Mari keeps sessions practical and focused. She listens first, then helps clients set short-term goals.
Background and approach
Conversations center on real-life steps that can reduce anxiety and improve day-to-day functioning. Sessions are paced to fit each person’s needs and energy. Her approach mixes client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral tools and mindfulness practices.
She also uses motivational interviewing to support change and draws on psychodynamic ideas to look at long-term patterns. Those methods are used to help people manage symptoms, build coping skills, and make lasting change. Mari’s background includes decades of work with mood disorders, family dynamics, and transitions across the lifespan.
That experience informs how she helps people facing divorce, blended family challenges, caregiving stress, and serious health concerns like cancer. Her long practice gives her a broad perspective on common life stressors. Sessions aim to be collaborative and straightforward.
Mari helps people recognize patterns, try new behaviors, and track progress over time. She frames therapy as a partnership focused on practical problem solving and greater emotional balance.
How approaches and online sessions work together
Client-centered therapy focuses on active listening and building a trusting relationship. The therapist follows the client’s lead, helps clarify goals, and supports self-directed change. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and uses practical exercises to reduce anxiety and manage phobias and mood problems. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus during stressful moments.Mari treats the choice of approach as a collaborative decision. She will talk with each person about goals, try a method, and adjust as needed. The process is meant to find what helps in everyday life rather than prescribe a single path up front.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls suit deeper conversations and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works well for quick check-ins, and text messaging lets someone send short updates or reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while keeping treatment consistent and flexible.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 36 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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