About Maryann
Maryann Steiner greets people who are worn down by stress, anxiety, grief, or big life changes. She focuses on clear, practical steps so people can feel steadier day to day. Maryann is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, with thirty-five years of experience in clinical settings in New York.
She listens without judgment and helps people decide what to try first. Sessions aim to break problems into manageable parts and build skills that actually get used between meetings.
Background and approach
Conversations are tailored to what each person needs and wants to accomplish. Maryann has long experience helping people facing chronic illness, addictions, depression, trauma, and relationship strain. She has worked with referrals from medical settings and supported parents and foster caregivers through difficult transitions.
Her practice also addresses issues such as sleep problems, anger, self-esteem, and caregiver stress. Her work draws on client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral tools, mindfulness, and hypnotherapy techniques when appropriate. She blends short-term strategies for immediate relief with deeper work on patterns that keep problems returning.
The goal is practical change rather than jargon. Sessions can move at the client’s pace. Maryann encourages honest conversation about goals, progress, and setbacks.
She aims to help people feel less overwhelmed and more able to manage everyday demands. For someone wanting steady support and straightforward guidance, she offers experience and a calm, respectful approach to help people take the next steps.
How Maryann’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person’s goals, then shaping sessions around those priorities to build trust and direction. It helps people feel heard and choose steps that fit their life.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety, improve mood, and change unhelpful patterns. It often includes exercises to try between sessions so progress can be measured.
Maryann treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process. She will discuss different methods, try practical techniques, and adjust the plan based on what the person notices and prefers. The goal is to tailor the work so it feels useful and manageable.
Online formats such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or a quicker check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter updates, reflections between sessions, or people who prefer typing to talking. These options offer flexibility for ongoing work and practical support.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English