About Mary
Mary Ann Yarbrough is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) who helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, and life transitions. She focuses on building a trusting working relationship and offers a calm, nonjudgmental space to talk through problems. Mary Ann listens closely and encourages people to use their own strengths as they work toward change.
She uses straightforward conversation and practical tools to address depression, addictions, ADHD, grief, and relationship concerns.
Background and approach
Sessions are paced to match each person, with attention to immediate coping skills as well as longer-term goals. She also supports work on issues like body image, codependency, and parenting strain. Mary Ann draws from client-centered methods alongside cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior ideas.
Mindfulness and solution-focused techniques are woven into sessions when useful. This mix helps people notice patterns, test small changes, and build coping habits that fit daily life. Her background includes six years of clinical experience, and she practices in Connecticut.
She emphasizes meeting people where they are and working together on realistic steps toward improvement. The tone in sessions is warm, direct, and respectful. Mary Ann aims to help people heal from painful experiences and move toward the life they want.
She invites straightforward conversation, practical skill-building, and steady support through difficult moments.
Approaches that fit into online sessions
Client-centered therapy starts with the person’s perspective. The therapist listens without judgment and helps people name what matters and what feels hard. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches practical ways to change them, often with homework between sessions. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers skills for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication useful for intense emotions and relationship struggles.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will work collaboratively to identify goals, try different strategies, and adjust methods based on what helps most. That way the work stays focused on what the person wants to change and how they prefer to work.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video lets people read facial cues and practice skills together. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text can support brief check-ins or ongoing coaching-style contact between longer visits. These options give flexibility while keeping the focus on practical tools and steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English