Maryjo Proietta Halpern, LCSW-R

Maryjo Proietta Halpern is a licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of experience in New York. She brings a calm, steady presence to sessions and focuses on practical ways to reduce stress and anxiety. Her approach is warm and person-centered, aiming to help people feel heard and understood.

She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients spot unhelpful thoughts and try new ways of behaving. Attachment-Based and Client-Centered ideas guide how she supports relationship concerns, communication problems, and issues around trust. Narrative and psychodynamic perspectives are also part of her toolbox when exploring past experiences and recurring patterns.

Maryjo often helps people dealing with depression, low self-esteem, and isolation or loneliness. She also addresses trauma and abuse, post-traumatic stress, social anxiety, and challenges around control, forgiveness, and guilt. Practical goals such as improving communication or navigating divorce and separation are common topics in her work.

Her sessions blend talk therapy with grounding practices drawn from her background as a yoga instructor, when clients want that option. She aims to create an open, nonjudgmental space where thoughts and emotions can be spoken about plainly. That steady environment helps people try small changes and notice what shifts.

Starting therapy can feel big, and she views the process as a collaboration. She helps people set realistic steps, track progress, and adjust the plan as needed so the work fits each person's life.

How therapeutic approaches shape online care

Maryjo often draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and test small behavior changes that can reduce anxiety and low mood. CBT is hands-on and goal oriented, useful for stress, social anxiety, and depression.

She also uses Attachment-Based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current trust, communication, and closeness. That work helps with relationship difficulties, attachment issues, and patterns that repeat across relationships.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. She collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level, adjusting strategies as progress happens.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which let people fit therapy around work, school, or parenting. Video sessions are good for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and text or chat can work well for short check-ins or when someone prefers writing. These options make it easier to keep consistent care and try different ways of working together.