Mary Kay Zayani , LCSW

Mary Kay Zayani is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 25 years of experience supporting adults facing stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, grief, career transitions, and a wide range of life challenges. She earned a master’s degree in clinical social work from Columbia University in New York and maintains professional licensure to practice clinical social work in both California and New York.

Her clinical style is warm, empathic, and strength-based, combining cognitive-behavioral and psychodynamic techniques to help clients stabilize emotions, develop self-soothing skills, and shift unhelpful core beliefs. As a therapist she listens attentively, validates lived experience, and acts as an objective, nonjudgmental guide who encourages clients to discover their own answers and choices.

Mary Kay’s practice addresses grief and loss, depression, anxiety, parenting and fatherhood issues, PTSD, relationship and intimacy concerns, addictions, eating and body image issues, ADHD, career coaching, and family of origin or family problems. She also works with abandonment and attachment issues, codependency and commitment concerns, communication difficulties, infidelity, guilt and shame, loneliness, and coping with life changes.

She offers therapy in a collaborative, client-centered way focused on practical tools and personal insight. Mary Kay is not currently accepting new clients.

Attachment-informed, Client-Centered, and CBT Care Online

Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationships shape current patterns of relating and emotional regulation. It can help people understand abandonment, attachment wounds, and intimacy struggles so they can form more secure connections and respond differently in close relationships.

Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes empathic presence, acceptance, and collaboration. By creating a supportive space, this approach helps clients build self-esteem, clarify values, and find their own solutions to life transitions and ongoing challenges.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It offers practical tools for managing anxiety, depressive patterns, and stress, and can be paired with other approaches for a tailored plan.

Finding the right therapeutic approach is part of the work. A licensed professional will collaborate with each client to determine which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting strategies over time as progress unfolds.

Online therapy via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging offers flexibility and easier access to licensed therapists. These formats make it simpler to fit sessions into a busy schedule, maintain continuity through life changes, and receive consistent support from a distance.