Mariama Sandifer

Mariama Sandifer is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who draws on 14 years of experience working in public schools as a nationally certified school counselor. She uses a collaborative, strengths-based style to help people manage anxiety, stress, anger, and major life changes. Mariama aims to create a calm, practical space where people feel heard and can learn useful tools for daily life.

Her background includes supporting students and caregivers through academic pressure, trauma, and family upheaval. That school counseling work shaped her approach to notice individual strengths and meet people where they are. She now brings those skills into individual counseling for adults, young adults, teenagers, and children.

Mariama commonly uses solution-focused techniques and cognitive behavioral approaches. She focuses on practical strategies people can try between sessions, such as coping skills, problem-solving steps, and ways to shift unhelpful thinking patterns. These methods are presented in straightforward language and small steps that fit into busy lives.

She also addresses parenting stress, caregiver strain, commitment worries, isolation or loneliness, workplace issues, and divorce and separation concerns. Sessions emphasize realistic goals and quick, usable strategies rather than long theory talks.

Located in Louisiana, Mariama offers clinical support grounded in experience with young people and families from school settings. Her tone is direct and compassionate, aiming to help people regain steady ground and move toward practical change.

How evidence-based approaches translate to online therapy

Evidence-based techniques like cognitive behavioral methods and solution-focused work are practical to use in remote sessions. Cognitive behavioral approaches help identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors with clear exercises and homework. Solution-focused work emphasizes small, concrete steps and brief goals that can be tracked between sessions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose which methods match their goals and daily life. Together they’ll try strategies, check what helps, and adjust the plan based on what actually works for the client.

Confirm the session formats before booking since the biography does not list specific online options. Online therapy can make fitting sessions into a busy week easier, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also let people practice skills in real time and bring examples from work or home into conversation without rearranging a full day.