Mari Broman
Calm, experienced guidance for life’s transitions
- Credentials
- LMSW
- Experience
- 36 years
- Licensed in
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Mari
Mari Broman is a licensed social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, anger, and challenges with self-esteem. She also supports clients facing addiction, grief, career shifts, intimacy concerns, bipolar disorder, and other life changes. Mari brings 36 years of practical experience to her work and practices in Michigan.
She holds the LMSW credential, which stands for Licensed Master Social Worker. Her style is straightforward and person-focused. Sessions aim to identify immediate problems and workable steps forward.
Background and approach
Mari listens for what matters most and emphasizes tools that people can use between meetings. She draws on several therapy methods to fit different needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple practices to calm strong emotions. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person’s goals and pace. Over decades she has worked with issues that often overlap, such as caregiver stress, blended family problems, attachment concerns, and communication breakdowns.
She also addresses aging and geriatric matters, cancer-related stress, and complications from co-occurring conditions. Mari aims to combine practical coaching with deeper exploration when it helps. The process is collaborative and paced to each person’s readiness.
People looking for steady, experienced support may find her approach clear and approachable.
Approaches for online family and parenting concerns
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person’s goals and pace. It gives space for people to talk through what matters and for the therapist to reflect back what is working and what is difficult. This approach helps with self-esteem, life purpose questions, and easing communication problems.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches clear strategies for shifting unhelpful thinking and behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, and anger. Mindfulness Therapy adds short attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and manage stress in daily life.
Deciding which approach fits best is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and immediate needs and then try methods that match. That collaboration helps tailor sessions so techniques feel useful and realistic for home and family life.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls recreate face-to-face conversation, phone sessions are simple and direct, and live chat or text-based messaging suit quick check-ins or ongoing coaching. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep continuity during life transitions.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 36 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
Next step
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