Therapist profile
Mary McDaniels, LCSW
Florida
LCSW - Stress and relationship concerns
Continue with MaryWhere Mary stands
- Credentials
- LCSW
- License
- LCSW, Florida / SW9878
- NPI
- 1114342888
- Experience
- 13 years
- Languages
- English
- Location
- Florida
About
- Attachment-based work
- Solution-focused strategies
- Mindfulness practices
About Mary
Mary McDaniels is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Florida with 13 years of clinical experience. She works with adults who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship and family concerns, and self-esteem challenges. Mary also supports people dealing with parenting strain, sleep problems, anger, grief, ADHD symptoms, and issues around intimacy and life changes.
Mary focuses on finding practical steps people can try right away. She uses solution-focused methods to help clients notice strengths and build skills that ease day-to-day struggles. Sessions are conversational and interactive, with attention to how attachment patterns and past hurts affect current behavior.
Her work draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape expectations and reactions in adult life. Mindfulness techniques are used to help reduce reactivity and improve awareness of emotions and bodily states. Trauma-focused approaches guide careful work on painful memories when those memories block functioning.
Mary describes her style as collaborative. She helps clients identify patterns such as people-pleasing, difficulty saying no, or living around another person’s moods. From there she supports goal-setting and short-term strategies to test changes between sessions.
People who come to Mary often want concrete tools as well as a clearer understanding of why they repeat certain behaviors. She invites straightforward conversations about boundaries, communication, and coping so clients can try different responses and notice what helps.
How sessions work
How her approaches translate to online work
Mary uses attachment-based work to look at patterns in relationships and how those patterns show up in daily life. This approach helps people who repeat familiar relationship reactions and want clearer ways to respond. Client-centered methods keep sessions focused on the person’s own goals and what matters most to them, helping the therapist follow the client’s lead in sessions.She combines these with mindfulness practices to help lower reactivity and increase awareness of thoughts, feelings, and body sensations. Those tools can be practiced in short exercises during sessions and as brief homework between meetings. Finding the right mix of approaches is a shared process; Mary works with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and comfort level.
Format details are not listed in the biography, so confirm available session options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. Licensed professionals can use online sessions to teach grounding skills, practice new ways of communicating, and test boundary-setting exercises in real life while reviewing what did and did not help.
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Experience
13+ years
Listed in
Florida
Languages
English
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship and family concerns, parenting strain, self-esteem, grief, sleep problems, anger, ADHD-related issues, and life transitions.
What is her therapeutic style?
Her approach is collaborative and practical. She uses solution-focused techniques alongside attachment and mindfulness methods to help clients develop skills they can use between sessions.
How much experience does she have?
Mary has 13 years of clinical experience working with adults on a wide range of emotional and relational concerns.
What are her credentials and where is she located?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) licensed in Florida and practices from that state.
Does she offer sessions in other languages or to international clients?
Sessions are offered in English. She does not accept international clients at this time.
What session formats does she provide?
Please confirm current session options before booking, as the biography does not specify formats. Check the booking flow for the latest session arrangements.
How does cost work for sessions?
Cost varies with location. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Use the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule your first session through the platform.
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