Maryjo Proietta Halpern, LCSW-R

Maryjo Proietta Halpern is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - Registered (LCSW-R) practicing in New York with three decades of professional experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, relationship challenges, trauma, self-esteem concerns, and depression. She brings together clinical training and a background as a certified yoga instructor to support healing that attends to both mind and body. Maryjo draws on a blend of therapeutic approaches, tailoring sessions to each person's history, strengths, and goals while maintaining a compassionate, nonjudgmental stance.

Her work often focuses on attachment issues, communication difficulties, control struggles, grief from divorce or separation, and the emotional burdens of guilt, shame, and isolation. She also supports clients coping with post-traumatic stress, social anxiety, and questions of life purpose and self-love. In sessions she emphasizes practical skills for managing symptoms alongside deeper exploration of patterns that affect relationships and self-worth.

Maryjo creates an open environment where thoughts and feelings can be shared safely and honestly. She encourages the important first step of reaching out for help and partners with clients to chart a path forward, combining therapeutic conversation with mind-body awareness drawn from her yoga practice.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Maryjo often draws from Attachment-Based Therapy to explore how early relationships influence current patterns - this approach helps people understand connection, trust, and emotional safety in relationships. She also uses Client-Centered Therapy, which focuses on meeting each person with empathy and respect so they can lead the pace and direction of their healing. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is another tool in her practice, offering practical strategies to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors that contribute to anxiety, depression, and stress.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Maryjo works collaboratively with clients to determine which methods best fit their needs, goals, and personal preferences. She adapts techniques over time as progress unfolds and as priorities change.

Online therapy with Maryjo offers flexibility - sessions can take place through video calls, over the phone, via live chat, or through text-based messaging to accommodate schedules and comfort levels. This range of options makes it easier to maintain consistent care, access support from home, and integrate therapeutic work into daily life, while allowing Maryjo to blend talk-based therapy with mind-body awareness informed by her yoga background.