Mary Kay Zayani, LCSW
Licensed in California · 25 years in practice
Mary Kay Zayani greets people with warmth and steady attention.
License and registration
- LCSW, California
- 21199 · expires August 2026
- LCSW, New York
- 075755 · expires July 2027
- NPI
- 1407073950 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 25
- Languages
- English
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About Mary
Mary Kay Zayani greets people with warmth and steady attention. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 25 years in counseling and mental health. Many come to her when stress, anxiety, grief, relationship strain, or life changes feel overwhelming.
She listens, soothes, and helps clients find their own next steps. Mary Kay draws on practical, down-to-earth methods to help people manage strong emotions and improve day-to-day functioning. She uses attachment-based ideas to look at how relationships shape feelings and behavior.
Background and approach
She also works with cognitive-behavioral strategies to identify and shift unhelpful thinking patterns. Sessions often include straightforward tools for coping, self-soothing, and changing small habits. Her style is calm and nonjudgmental.
She aims to be a steady witness who validates feelings while encouraging movement forward. Conversations focus on stabilizing emotions, clarifying values, and making choices that feel right for the person in front of her. Clients who want help with parenting concerns, career decisions, intimacy or communication issues, addiction struggles, body image, or grief can expect practical support and gentle challenge.
She also offers coaching-style guidance when motivation or direction is the main need. Mary Kay practices from California and holds LCSW credentials in both New York and California. Sessions are offered in English and provided through a range of online formats.
The emphasis is on clear, compassionate work that helps people handle the next step in their lives.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Mary lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Approaches Mary names
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How therapeutic approaches map to online sessions
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how your early and current relationships affect how you feel and act. It helps with fears around abandonment, trust, and connection by focusing on patterns that repeat in relationships. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on how thoughts influence feelings and behavior. It teaches clear tools to identify unhelpful thinking, test those thoughts, and build new habits for mood and behavior. Finding the right approach is part of the work. Mary Kay will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She often blends approaches, and she checks in with clients regularly to see what is helping and what to change. Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let people use visual cues and full conversation. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging can support shorter updates, between-session coaching, or when typing feels more comfortable than talking. These options offer flexibility for scheduling and different rhythms of care.We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you. It does not change what you pay or the order of the listings.
Questions people ask
What concerns does Mary Kay commonly help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, career concerns, addictions, parenting and self-esteem challenges among other life changes.
What is her general therapy style?
Her approach is warm and nonjudgmental. Sessions focus on listening, validating feelings, and giving practical tools to manage emotions and change unhelpful thoughts.
How long has she been practicing?
She brings 25 years of experience in counseling and mental health to her work with clients.
Where is she licensed and based?
She holds LCSW credentials in New York and California and practices from California.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be conducted by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How are fees and payments handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
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