Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Coping with life changes
How Mariama works
- Not listed
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Georgia, Louisiana
- Years in practice
- 14
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Mariama
Mariama Sandifer is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 14 years of experience in school counseling. She brings a strengths-based, practical style to individual counseling and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationships, parenting challenges, anger, and major life changes. Her approach centers on collaboration and clear tools you can use between sessions.
Before independent practice, she spent 14 years in public schools as a nationally certified school counselor.
Background and approach
Those years shaped how she notices strengths and meets people where they are. That experience included work with academic stress, trauma, family upheaval, and adoption-related concerns. In her individual practice she uses solution-focused techniques and cognitive behavioral approaches to break problems into manageable steps.
Sessions aim to build small, doable skills for mood, behavior, and problem solving. Mariama emphasizes respect and partnership while teaching practical strategies you can try right away. She also supports people facing caregiver stress, commitment questions, divorce and separation, family problems, isolation or loneliness, and workplace issues.
The goal is often clearer thinking and better day-to-day coping rather than long theoretical discussion. Mariama offers a straightforward process to help you set goals and track progress over time. She explains options, suggests specific exercises, and adapts techniques to fit how you live.
If you want help managing anger or coping with life changes, she focuses on practical steps to move forward.
What Mariama works with
Everything Mariama lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Mariama's practice.
Practical approaches for online sessions and real-life problems
Solution-focused work helps identify small, concrete changes to try right away. It breaks larger problems into short-term goals and experiments you can test between sessions, which can be useful for anger, parenting struggles, and relationship issues.Cognitive behavioral approaches look at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Sessions focus on noticing unhelpful thinking patterns and practicing alternative responses, often with hands-on exercises to shift behavior and mood over time.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to match methods to their goals, preferences, and daily life. This means trying techniques and adjusting based on what helps most.
Confirm current session options before booking, as formats are not listed here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when days are tight. It can also be useful when quieter surroundings or lower bandwidth are needed, or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Licensed professionals can tailor pacing and homework to what works in your routine.
Questions people ask about Mariama
What concerns does she help with?
Mariama helps people with stress, anxiety, relationship and parenting concerns, anger, and coping with life changes. She also addresses caregiver stress, commitment issues, divorce and separation, family problems, isolation, and workplace issues.
What is her therapeutic style?
She uses a collaborative, strengths-based style with an emphasis on practical tools. Solution-focused methods and cognitive behavioral approaches shape sessions so you leave with clear steps to try.
How much experience does she have?
She has 14 years of experience, including a long career as a nationally certified school counselor before moving into independent practice as an LPC.
Where is she licensed and based?
She holds the LPC credential and practices in Louisiana with licensure listed for GA LPC and LA LPC in her background.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the U.S. work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted; she works with clients located where her licensure and practice permit services.
How are sessions paid for?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability, and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What do I do to get started?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to therapist availability.