About Mary
Mary Verberne is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Louisiana. She has 12 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, and life changes. Mary keeps sessions straightforward and focused on what matters to each person.
Her work often covers parenting concerns, grief, addiction, trauma and abuse, and problems with sleep. She also helps people who face career strain, compassion fatigue, or challenges tied to ADHD.
Background and approach
Mary listens for the practical shifts someone can make right away. Mary uses tools from client-centered work, cognitive behavioral ideas, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and narrative approaches. She explains techniques in plain language and encourages small experiments between sessions.
Progress is built step by step, not rushed. Her style is collaborative and faith-informed, while staying focused on each person’s goals and values. Sessions are a place to talk through feelings, test new ways of responding, and rewrite unhelpful stories about oneself.
Mary helps people set clear next steps they can try during the week. People seeking help can expect calm, direct guidance and practical strategies for coping. Whether the issue feels immediate or long-standing, Mary aims to make therapy useful and manageable.
She supports growth at a pace that fits each person’s life.
Practical approaches for online therapy and healing
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s own priorities. The therapist listens carefully and follows the client’s pace to help clarify goals and feelings. This approach is useful when someone needs a supportive space to make sense of difficult experiences.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and actions affect mood. It teaches small experiments and coping tools to change patterns that keep problems going. CBT helps with anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and stress by giving specific steps to try between sessions.
Mindfulness practice brings attention to the present moment and reduces overwhelm. Short breathing or grounding exercises can lower reactivity and improve focus, which is helpful for stress, anger, and compassion fatigue.
Choosing the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with clients about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they’ll try methods and adjust the plan based on what helps most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexible ways to connect. Video is good for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone calls use less bandwidth, live chat and text can fit brief check-ins or busy schedules. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting it into everyday life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- 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