Maryann Steiner
Calm, practical support for parents and caregivers
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed in
- New York
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Maryann
Maryann Steiner is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in New York who focuses on family and parenting concerns alongside many other life challenges. She offers a calm, respectful presence and helps parents and caregivers talk through immediate worries. Sessions aim to make next steps clear and manageable rather than overwhelming.
She brings 35 years of experience, much of it in medical settings providing both psychotherapy and life coaching.
Background and approach
That background means she has worked with people facing chronic illness, accidents, addiction, depression, and related stresses. She also has experience with foster care and parenting teens from her time as a foster parent. Her approach combines client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral techniques.
She adapts conversations and plans to each person’s needs so the work fits daily life. Hypnotherapy and mindfulness tools are available when they suit the goals. In sessions she focuses on practical skills for stress, anxiety, sleep, anger, and managing change.
She also addresses relationship and intimacy challenges, grief, self-esteem, codependency, and caregiver stress. The goal is clearer coping strategies and more control over day-to-day functioning. Maryann structures therapy collaboratively.
She helps people set realistic goals and explores steps that feel doable. For parents and caregivers looking for steady support, she offers grounded guidance and long-term experience to help navigate difficult transitions.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a supportive relationship. The therapist follows the client's lead, reflects concerns, and helps set goals that feel achievable, which often helps with parenting stress and family communication.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. It teaches straightforward skills for anxiety, sleep issues, anger, and depressive patterns that can be practiced between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Maryann will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That may mean mixing listening-based work with CBT techniques, or adding mindfulness or hypnotherapy tools when useful.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let sessions feel close to in-person meetings, while phone, live chat, and text-based messaging give options for busy caregivers or people who need shorter check-ins. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into family routines and manage ongoing life stressors.
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
- 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
Next step
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