About Mariana
Mariana Mackinnon helps people who feel stuck between who they were and who they want to be. She meets clients where they are and focuses on practical steps to reduce anxiety, manage stress, and rebuild connections. Mariana writes and speaks plainly, and she uses straightforward tools that clients can try between sessions.
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, with eight years of clinical experience. Mariana draws on several therapy styles to tailor care to each person’s needs.
Background and approach
Her work covers a wide range of concerns including depression, relationship struggles, grief, trauma and abuse, addiction, compassion fatigue, and ADHD-related challenges. Mariana grew up bilingual in a Latino household and spent time living and working in Madrid, Spain. Those experiences shape how she understands identity, culture, and the push-pull of belonging to more than one world.
She brings cultural curiosity into conversations so clients’ stories fit the therapy room. In session she focuses on clear goals and skills people can use right away. That might include learning new coping strategies, practicing communication skills, or processing hard memories at a pace that feels manageable.
Mariana offers services in English and Spanish and practices in Florida. She works with people dealing with life transitions, intimacy and intimacy-related issues, self-esteem problems, career stress, and a broad set of attachment and identity concerns.
How Mariana’s approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. It’s useful for anxiety, life changes, and feeling unmoored. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at patterns of thought and behavior and teaches practical strategies to shift unhelpful cycles. It can help with depression, anxiety, and everyday stress. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, focuses on reducing the intensity of traumatic memories by processing them in a structured way and can help when past events continue to affect daily life.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Mariana will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and how they respond to different techniques. Together they choose methods that make sense for the problem at hand and adjust as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules and varied needs. Video calls allow for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit a short break. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between sessions or use brief, focused communication when that suits their day. These options make it easier to maintain consistent care while using approaches like ACT, CBT, or EMDR in ways that fit a person’s life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Depression
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish