Mariana Mackinnon, LCSW

Mariana Mackinnon is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who helps people facing trauma, stress, anxiety, relationship strain, and life transitions. She speaks English and Spanish and draws on personal experience navigating different cultures to inform her work. Mariana aims to make therapy feel understandable and manageable for people who are overwhelmed or unsure where to begin.

Mariana has eight years of clinical experience and uses approaches such as Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to guide sessions. She focuses on practical steps clients can try between meetings, and she adapts methods to each person’s goals and pace. Sessions emphasize clear goals, grounded skills, and attention to cultural background.

She helps people coping with grief, compassion fatigue, addictions, intimacy concerns, anger, low self-esteem, and career stress. Mariana also supports those navigating attachment and abandonment issues, body image, chronic illness or pain, and challenges related to kink and alternative sex culture. Her work includes attention to relationship ruptures and identity questions.

Mariana describes the in-between moments of life as full of possibility. In therapy she helps people move through those thresholds with practical tools and steady pacing. Clients can expect a collaborative process that centers personal values and real-world changes.

Her Florida practice frames therapy as problem-solving and personal growth. Mariana encourages people to bring who they are to the room and to take small, actionable steps toward clearer choices.

How these approaches translate to online therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters most to them and take small actions that align with those values. It's useful for anxiety, depression, and major life transitions because it focuses on meaningful goals rather than just symptom reduction.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing practical behavior changes. It often includes concrete exercises and short between-session tasks that track progress and build new skills.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is a trauma-focused method that works with distressing memories and their emotional impact. It is commonly used for trauma and abuse-related concerns and is delivered in a paced, structured way.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to select or combine methods based on goals, comfort, and how someone responds in early sessions. That means trying an approach, checking in, and adjusting as needed rather than committing immediately.

Confirm the therapist's current session options before booking, as formats are not listed here. Online therapy can make scheduling easier and help fit care into daily life, whether someone needs a shorter check-in, a session outside normal work hours, or a way to work that avoids travel. Licensed professionals can adapt ACT, CBT, or EMDR techniques to remote sessions while keeping the focus practical and goal oriented.