Mary Verberne

Mary Verberne is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) practicing in Louisiana. She brings 12 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and difficult life transitions. She frames care around each person’s story and aims to make therapy practical and understandable.

Mary uses a compassionate, faith-informed stance to create a calm space for conversation. She listens for what matters most and helps clients set concrete steps they can try between sessions. Her work often focuses on relationship concerns, grief, parenting strain, and anger management needs.

Her approach draws on several well-established methods. She uses client-centered techniques to follow what a person values and to build trust. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and test new behaviors. Mindfulness strategies are offered to help manage stress and improve sleep.

Mary also incorporates motivational interviewing and narrative therapy when helpful. Motivational interviewing supports people who want to change habits or cope with addictions. Narrative therapy helps reframe painful experiences and create more helpful personal stories.

Sessions aim to be practical and collaborative. Clients can expect clear goals, small experiments to try in daily life, and attention to how faith or values shape choices. People come for help with career stress, compassion fatigue, intimacy issues, ADHD concerns, and more.

To begin, visitors should use the site’s Start Therapy flow to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to availability.

How Mary uses therapy approaches online

Mary often brings together client-centered work and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to guide online sessions. Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s values and priorities, helping the therapist follow what matters most to the client and build trust. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy examines unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and builds simple experiments clients can try between appointments to test new ways of responding.

She also uses mindfulness techniques to teach practical ways to manage stress and improve sleep. Mindfulness involves short exercises in attention and breathing that can reduce reactivity and help with emotional regulation. These approaches are chosen to match a person’s goals and daily life, not imposed from the start.

Finding the right mix of methods is a shared process. The therapist will work with clients to identify goals, try strategies, and adjust the plan as needed. That collaboration helps ensure the approach fits each person’s needs, values, and preferences.

Because the profile does not list specific session formats, confirm the available online options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. Many people find that working this way helps them practice new skills in real contexts and keeps momentum between appointments.