Mary Ann Yarbrough, LCSW

Mary Ann Yarbrough is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Connecticut with six years of professional experience. She works with adults who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family concerns, and other difficulties such as addiction, grief, and parenting strain. Sessions focus on practical ways to manage symptoms and improve day-to-day functioning.

Mary Ann uses a client-centered style that keeps the person’s own goals in view. She listens, reflects, and helps people recognize strengths they already have. Sessions often include skill-building and straightforward strategies to handle strong emotions or recurring problems.

Her clinical toolkit includes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, mindfulness techniques, and solution-focused strategies. These methods are used to address worries, mood problems, attention challenges, and patterns that come from how people learned to relate to others in childhood and family settings. Family of origin issues are part of the areas she supports.

Mary Ann has experience supporting people affected by abandonment, adoption and foster care questions, attachment issues, body image concerns, codependency, communication and control problems, and caregiver stress. She also works with people facing substance use, eating-related problems, and coping with major life changes.

Her approach is practical and collaborative. She helps people set clear goals, practice new ways of coping, and track small steps of progress. For someone noticing how old family patterns still shape daily life, she offers straightforward guidance and tools to try between sessions.

How her approaches are used in online sessions