Mariana Mackinnon, LCSW

Mariana Mackinnon is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing big life shifts and hard emotions. She speaks English and Spanish and draws on personal experience living between cultures to understand identity questions and cross-cultural stress. Many people come to her for help with anxiety, depression, relationship problems, or the strain of caregiving and chronic health issues.

She has eight years of clinical experience and uses approaches that focus on what matters to each person. Sessions often look at thoughts, behaviors, and values to find practical ways to reduce suffering. She also offers methods for processing difficult memories and building emotion regulation skills.

Mariana respects cultural context and invites clients to bring their whole selves to the work. She pays attention to how family expectations, cultural roles, and language shape stress and resilience. That perspective helps when clients feel caught between different parts of their lives.

Her background includes time living and working overseas, which shaped her view of transitions as opportunities rather than losses. She aims to make change feel manageable by breaking goals into small steps and using straightforward tools people can use between sessions.

To begin, prospective clients select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to the therapist's availability. Session cost varies with location and uses a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify their values and take actions that match those values despite uncomfortable feelings. It can be useful for life changes, anxiety, and making decisions that feel aligned with who you want to be. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and replacing them with more helpful patterns; it often includes practical exercises to use between sessions. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, is an approach for working with distressing memories and the emotions they trigger and can be used when trauma or past events are a core concern.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Mariana treats deciding on methods as a collaborative process. She listens to each person's goals and preferences and adapts techniques to fit their situation rather than following a one-size-fits-all plan.

Confirm the specific session formats offered before booking, as the biography does not list formats explicitly. Online therapy can make scheduling easier and help fit sessions into busy days. It can also allow shorter check-ins when time is limited, let people avoid travel, and make it simpler to use therapeutic tools between appointments. Licensed professionals can tailor sessions to match pace, goals, and the kinds of exercises that work best for each person.