About Mary
Mary Verberne is a licensed clinical social worker with 12 years of experience practicing in Louisiana. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship or family concerns. Her work is aimed at practical change and clearer daily coping rather than medical labels or quick fixes.
She uses a calm, respectful manner to help clients tell their stories and spot patterns that cause pain.
Background and approach
Conversations are collaborative: goals get set together and progress is checked along the way. Mary often combines straightforward problem-solving with opportunities to reflect on values and meaning. Common issues she addresses include parenting strain, sleep disruption, anger, intimacy-related concerns, and coping with life changes.
She also supports people facing addictions, trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, and ADHD-related struggles. Her background includes work with caregivers, people managing chronic illness, and those dealing with attachment or abandonment concerns. Sessions tend to focus on concrete strategies you can use between meetings, like behavioral experiments, communication skills, and mindful practices.
Narrative work helps people reframe difficult chapters of their lives, while motivational techniques support commitment to change. The aim is to build sustainable coping rather than quick fixes. Mary describes her approach as client-centered and collaborative.
She encourages straightforward conversation about what’s working and what’s not, and she adapts methods to fit each person’s needs. This profile highlights phobias among the concerns she addresses when fear or avoidance gets in the way of daily life.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely to each person and following their priorities. It helps people feel heard and guides conversations toward goals they care about. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, actions, and feelings and teaches practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and phobias.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Mary will collaborate with clients to choose or blend methods based on their goals, symptoms, and daily routines. She checks in regularly to see what helps and adjusts plans so sessions stay relevant and useful.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules. Video lets you work in real time and practice interpersonal skills. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging offer shorter check-ins or the ability to work in brief moments during the day. These formats support flexibility and continuity of care for people juggling work, family, or mobility limits.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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