Mariah Stockard, LCSW

Mariah Stockard is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship or intimacy concerns. She uses practical tools and talk therapy to address everyday struggles and complex life changes. Mariah works from a calm, compassionate stance and aims to make therapy feel straightforward and manageable.

She draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and replace them with more useful ones. Attachment-based ideas guide work on closeness, trust, and how early patterns affect current relationships. Client-centered and emotionally focused methods are used to listen deeply and bring feelings into clearer view.

Sessions include skill teaching, pacing for difficult memories, and step-by-step plans for daily coping. Mariah blends discussion with concrete exercises so people leave with something to try between sessions. Psychoeducation is offered when it helps make situations easier to understand.

Her background includes five years of work in mental health and a Florida LCSW credential. That experience includes supporting people through trauma and abuse, grief, parenting strain, eating and body image concerns, bipolar mood challenges, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. She also helps with abandonment and attachment issues, codependency, and communication problems.

Mariah aims to create a nonjudgmental space where thoughts and feelings can be shared. She encourages small, practical steps toward change and partners with each person to set realistic goals. Starting therapy is framed as a courageous first move toward a more manageable day-to-day life.

How these approaches work online

Mariah uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. CBT is practical and skill oriented, and it often helps with anxiety, depression, and stress-related patterns. Attachment-based therapy focuses on how early connection shapes current relationships and helps people build safer ways of relating to others.

She pairs these with a client-centered attitude that puts the person’s goals first. Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then try approaches that feel like the best fit, adjusting as progress is made.

Online therapy here is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well for lower bandwidth or brief check-ins. Live chat and text are useful for quick check-ins, written reflections, or when someone prefers typing over talking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep continuity between sessions.