About Mariah
Mariah Stockard, LCSW, helps people navigate stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy concerns, depression, grief, and challenges related to trauma or abuse. She also supports people facing issues with eating, self-esteem, parenting, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Her approach is compassionate and straightforward, aimed at practical change in daily life.
Mariah uses talk therapy combined with teaching coping skills and simple tools. Sessions focus on processing past and recent stressful events and building skills to manage mood and relationships.
Background and approach
She explains ideas plainly and works alongside people to set realistic goals. With five years of professional experience and an LCSW licensed in Florida, Mariah has worked across a range of settings and client concerns. She draws from several therapeutic approaches to match methods to each person’s needs rather than using a single fixed style.
In sessions she emphasizes a nonjudgmental space where thoughts and feelings can be shared openly. Therapy often includes learning practical strategies, trying new behavior patterns, and reflecting on relationship dynamics and attachment patterns. Mariah encourages small, steady steps toward improvement.
She helps people develop better day-to-day functioning through skill-building, conversations about meaning and identity, and focused work on relationship patterns and emotional responses.
Approaches that guide online work and what they do
Mariah often uses Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early connections shape current relationships. This approach helps people see patterns in closeness and separation and work toward more supported ways of relating.She also uses Client-Centered Therapy, which centers on listening and reflecting so people can find their own solutions. That method is useful for building self-esteem, processing grief, and exploring identity at a comfortable pace.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That way sessions feel relevant and respectful of what a person hopes to change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a simpler audio check-in when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text messaging can offer brief check-ins, journaling support, or flexible contact between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different life demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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