About Mariah
Mariah Stockard offers support for stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy challenges, grief, trauma and abuse, parenting strain, eating and body-image concerns, ADHD, and related struggles. She is a licensed clinical social worker - LCSW - practicing in Florida and brings five years of experience in mental health work.
Her approach focuses on practical tools and steady guidance so people can manage day-to-day life more easily. Mariah creates a compassionate space where people can talk through hard events and painful feelings.
Background and approach
She combines talk therapy with education about coping skills. That can mean learning breathing or grounding methods, breaking problems into smaller steps, or trying new ways to talk with others. Sessions aim to make daily functioning a bit easier and to build skills that last.
She draws on several therapy styles to meet each person where they are. Some work centers on how relationships and attachment shape current problems. Other parts use focused techniques to change unhelpful thinking or to make sense of life stories and patterns.
The goal is to pick methods that match the person’s needs and goals. Mariah has experience supporting people through relationship conflict, parenting stress, chronic illness, and identity-related concerns including LGBT issues. She also addresses anger, self-esteem, eating concerns, and recovery from loss.
Her style is collaborative and straightforward, with attention to what helps between sessions. If someone needs urgent help, Mariah notes crisis resources such as 1-800-273-TALK, 988, or 911. She asks new clients to begin by completing a short matching questionnaire and then scheduling their first session.
How attachment work and CBT translate to online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationship patterns affect feelings and behavior. Online sessions can help people notice those patterns and try new ways of connecting with others. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety or low mood. It works well for stress, anxiety, and mood shifts and is easy to practice between sessions. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify and express core emotions in relationships to improve closeness and repair trust.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made, keeping the work collaborative and goal-oriented.
Online therapy offers flexibility and practical options. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier when being on camera is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, notes between sessions, or when a written format feels more comfortable. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while still working through attachment worries, thought patterns, relationship issues, and coping skills.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also works with
- 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