Maryann Steiner, LCSW

Maryann Steiner is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 35 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, and relationship concerns. She listens with respect and compassion and aims to help people take practical steps toward feeling better. Her approach is straightforward and focused on what each person needs right now.

She spent many years working in medical settings offering psychotherapy and life coaching to people facing chronic and acute health issues, accidents, substance use, and mood concerns. That background shaped a pragmatic style that blends cognitive behavioral ideas with client-centered conversation and other techniques that fit each person.

Maryann adapts sessions to the problem at hand. She uses cognitive behavioral strategies to tackle unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. She also draws on mindfulness and hypnotherapy tools when appropriate to address sleep problems, trauma-related symptoms, and stress responses.

Parents and caregivers will find an emphasis on realistic steps for managing daily strain. She has additional focus on adoption and foster care issues, aging and geriatric concerns, caregiver stress, chronic pain and illness, and codependency. Goals are set together and revised as progress is made.

Sessions are practical and conversational. Maryann helps clients build skills, change patterns, and try new responses between meetings. The aim is clearer thinking, steadier moods, and better routines that fit real life in New York.

How Maryann Uses Evidence-Based Approaches Online

Maryann often draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying and shifting unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety and depression. CBT tends to be goal-oriented and includes home practice to build new habits. She also uses client-centered therapy, which prioritizes listening, empathy, and working at the client's pace to explore what matters most and set meaningful goals.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Maryann will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then try methods that make sense together. She adjusts techniques over time and invites feedback so the work stays useful and relevant.

Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls make it possible to run a full session with visual cues, phone sessions work well for shorter check-ins or when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging can support quick questions, brief check-ins, or ongoing skill practice between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum between appointments.