About Mari
Mari DeRienzo is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 39 years of experience. She helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, grief, self-esteem struggles, and ADHD. She also supports people facing parenting and intimacy-related concerns.
Her approach aims to make it easier to talk about difficult feelings without judgment. Mari keeps sessions straightforward and down-to-earth. She listens closely and helps people identify the next practical steps.
Conversations focus on day-to-day challenges and small, useful changes that can make life feel more manageable.
Background and approach
She blends several counseling methods to fit each person’s needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thinking and try new patterns. Client-centered work emphasizes respect, active listening, and following the client’s lead.
Motivational Interviewing is used when people want support finding the energy to change. Solution-focused techniques help set concrete, short-term goals and track progress. Internal Family Systems can help people understand the different parts of themselves and how those parts interact.
Mari has worked across varied settings during her career and brings practical experience to sessions. She offers a calm, nonjudgmental presence and focuses on what clients want to accomplish. People who prefer a direct, collaborative style often find her approach helpful.
How Mari’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the client's lead. It creates space for people to talk about what matters most and decide what change feels right for them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts affect feelings and behavior, then tests small changes to reduce anxiety or build new habits. Motivational Interviewing helps people find their own reasons to make changes and builds momentum around those goals.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Mari will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and everyday challenges. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust them as needed so sessions stay useful and relevant.
Online sessions can fit busy schedules. Video calls let people use visual cues and keep sessions similar to in-person meetings. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are helpful for quick updates, ongoing coaching, or when someone prefers typing to talking. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around life and work commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 39 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey, Arizona
- Languages
- English
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