About Mara
Mara Dubois is a licensed professional counselor in New Jersey with 24 years of experience. She focuses on practical help for stress, anxiety, depression, and mood concerns. Mara also supports people dealing with trauma, addiction, body image, and issues tied to identity and intimacy.
Her approach is straightforward and person-centered. Sessions are a space to say what matters and work out realistic next steps. She helps clients name patterns, test small changes, and build new skills for coping and problem solving.
Background and approach
Mara often addresses relationship stress, communication problems, and parenting strain by helping individuals clarify values and set boundaries. She also works with attachment and abandonment themes that come up after breakup, divorce, or losses. Financial worries and career strain are treated as real-life stresses that affect mood and choices.
For people coping with trauma and dissociation, Mara uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques aimed at increasing safety and stability first, then building on resilience. When eating concerns, impulsivity, or addictive patterns appear, she focuses on practical tools to reduce harm and strengthen everyday routines. She offers sessions in English and accepts international clients.
The tone in her work is accepting and direct, aimed at helping people take the small steps that add up to meaningful change.
Evidence-based work you can do online
Mara uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help clients make steady progress. One common approach focuses on building coping skills and behavioral changes to reduce anxiety and mood symptoms; it emphasizes small experiments and practical routines to improve daily functioning. Another approach centers on trauma-informed stabilization - first increasing safety and predictability, then developing emotional regulation and grounding skills to reduce dissociation and distress.Choosing the best approach is collaborative. Mara will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then adjust strategies as progress is made. The plan can change over time to match improvements or new challenges that arise.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is useful for fuller conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging allow brief check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, and flexibility for people with irregular schedules.
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What this counselor works with
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- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English