Mahroo Moshari, LCSW
Compassionate narrative therapy for life transitions
Details
| Name | Mahroo Moshari |
|---|---|
| Credentials | LCSW |
| Based in | New York |
| Licensed in | New York |
| Session format | Online |
| Languages | English, Italian, Persian |
| Years in practice | 20 |
About Mahroo
Mahroo Moshari is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in New York with 20 years of experience. She focuses on helping people regain confidence, manage stress, and handle big life changes. Her work often centers on parenting and family concerns, mood and anxiety issues, and challenges like grief or trauma.
She takes a narrative-informed, client-centered approach that values each person's story. Sessions aim to make sense of difficult experiences and to find new meanings that support change.
Background and approach
Practical tools from cognitive behavioral ideas are used when helpful to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Mahroo draws on emotionally focused ideas to improve communication and connection. She helps people identify patterns in relationships and practice small, concrete steps to relate differently.
The process is collaborative and paced to what each person prefers. Her background includes long experience with diverse cultural and immigrant backgrounds. She speaks English, Italian, and Persian and understands the strain that cultural stigma can place on self-esteem and identity.
That experience shapes how she listens and responds. In sessions clients learn self-awareness, problem-solving skills, and coping strategies. Therapy aims to reduce symptoms like anxiety or depression while also strengthening everyday skills for work, parenting, and relationships.
Progress is practical, with realistic goals set together.
What this therapist works with
Her listing names Family conflicts, Parenting issues, Self esteem among the things Mahroo works with, alongside the areas below.
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches listed
- Narrative Therapy: Named in her listing among her approaches.
- Client-Centered Therapy: Listed by Mahroo among the ways she works.
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Listed by Mahroo among the ways she works.
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT): Listed by Mahroo among the ways she works.
- Existential Therapy: Listed by Mahroo among the ways she works.
- Motivational Interviewing: Listed by Mahroo among the ways she works.
- Solution-Focused Therapy: Listed by Mahroo among the ways she works.
- Training stated: This directory copies the approaches a therapist names and does not check training records. Ask Mahroo directly how much of the work is narrative and what a session usually looks like.
Narrative Therapy in this listing
Narrative Therapy appears in this therapist's own list of approaches. That tells you it is part of how she works. It does not tell you how much of a session it shapes, and this directory does not check or rate training.
If a narrative approach is what you are looking for, it is worth asking Mahroo directly how she uses it and what a session usually looks like.
Online session options
How narrative and client-centered work online
Mahroo uses Narrative Therapy to help people separate themselves from their problems and rewrite difficult parts of their life story. Narrative work is useful for identity issues, low self-esteem, and making sense of cultural or family expectations. Client-Centered Therapy is also central - sessions focus on listening, empathy, and following the client's pace to build trust and clarity. That approach helps when people need acceptance and space to find their own solutions.She also uses practical elements from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) when clients want concrete tools to change thoughts and behaviors. CBT techniques can help with anxiety, low mood, sleep problems, and managing stressful reactions. Together these approaches are chosen with the client in a collaborative way so the therapy fits the person's goals and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and work well for deeper emotional work. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging support shorter check-ins, focused homework, or ongoing coaching-style contact. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into everyday life.
Common questions about this listing
What concerns does this therapist address?
She helps with depression, anxiety, stress, parenting and family challenges, grief, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, relationship and intimacy issues, sleep difficulties, anger, career concerns, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and related topics.
What is the therapist's style in sessions?
Sessions are narrative-focused and client-centered, with practical elements from cognitive behavioral and emotionally focused approaches when useful. The style is collaborative and focused on understanding each person's story and needs.
How much clinical experience does the therapist have?
She brings 20 years of clinical experience working with diverse clients and a range of mood, relationship, and life-change concerns.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She holds the credential LCSW (licensed clinical social worker) and practices in New York.
Which languages are supported in therapy sessions?
Sessions are offered in English, Italian, and Persian.
Are international clients taken?
International clients are not currently accepted; services are provided to people located in the applicable jurisdiction.
What session formats are available?
Therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How does cost and scheduling work?
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