About Mariama
Mariama Sandifer is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 14 years of experience in school counseling. She centers work on each person's strengths and offers down-to-earth, practical support for stress, anxiety, and relationship concerns. Her approach is collaborative and straightforward, aimed at helping people find useful tools for daily life.
She spent over a decade in public schools as a nationally certified school counselor. In that role she supported young people and families through academic pressure, trauma, and family changes.
Background and approach
Those years shaped how she notices individual strengths and adapts to different needs. In independent practice she brings a strengths-based, problem-solving focus. She uses techniques drawn from solution-focused and cognitive behavioral approaches to help people manage anger, cope with life changes, and handle workplace stress.
Sessions emphasize clear steps clients can try between meetings. Mariama also supports parenting and caregiver stress, commitment issues, and people facing divorce or separation. She pays attention to feelings of isolation and helps clients rebuild connections and routines that feel sustainable.
Her style is respectful and partnered. She listens, helps set goals, and practices techniques together so clients leave with concrete skills. Prospective clients in Louisiana can expect straightforward guidance aimed at making everyday life feel more manageable.
How these approaches translate to online work
Solution-focused techniques emphasize small, practical changes that can be tried between sessions to build momentum. This approach helps when the goal is to identify what is already working and increase those steps over time. Cognitive behavioral methods break problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teach specific skills to change unhelpful patterns; they are commonly used for anxiety, anger, and stress management.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then recommend techniques to try together. Adjustments are made over time based on what helps the client make progress.
Because the biography does not list specific session formats, confirm current remote options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy day, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. It can also let people practice new skills between meetings in the settings where they live and work.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Georgia, Louisiana
- Languages
- English