Maryann Steiner

Maryann Steiner is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 35 years of experience. She focuses on helping people cope with grief, stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Her tone is warm and practical, and she aims to listen first and help clients take small steps toward change.

Maryann draws on straightforward, evidence-informed methods to help people manage symptoms and solve problems. She uses client-centered ideas to follow each person's priorities, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address thinking and behavior patterns, and mindfulness practices to reduce tension and reactivity. She also incorporates hypnotherapy when it can help clients access deeper focus or calm.

Her background includes long work in medical settings where she provided psychotherapy and life coaching for people facing chronic and acute diagnoses, accidents, addiction concerns, and mood changes. She also has experience related to foster care from a decade as a foster parent working primarily with teens.

In sessions Maryann aims to create a respectful, compassionate space where practical steps are discussed. Conversations are tailored to what the client needs right now, and treatment plans are adjusted as goals evolve. She emphasizes skill building that can be used between sessions to manage daily stress and sleep, reduce reactivity, and improve communication.

People who come to Maryann often want help with caregiving strain, chronic health challenges, relationship stress, or coping after loss. She works from New York and conducts sessions in English.

Online approaches and how they can help

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening to what matters most to the person and shaping conversations around those priorities. It helps people clarify goals and feel heard while they work through loss, caregiver strain, or relationship stress.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. It teaches practical steps to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, manage mood, and change unhelpful behaviors.

Mindfulness Therapy offers simple attention and breathing practices to lower reactivity and ease ongoing worry or tension. These practices can help with compassion fatigue and chronic pain by building steady moments of rest.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose techniques that match their needs, goals, and preferences, and she adjusts plans as progress is made.

Confirm current session options before booking so you know what formats are offered. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also let people use breathing or grounding practices in-between sessions and bring real-life situations into conversation for practical problem solving.