Her work has been informed by a number of different therapeutic models. In the last seven years she has been dedicated to integrate Narrative Ideas and Social Justice models into her practice.

In those sacred conversations that happen in her office, people can reclaim their own preferred stories and re-define themselves by centering on stories that don’t restrict their lives to the definition that the problem imposes on them (ADHD child, Anxious wives, violent teen, abusive husband, etc.). Paraphrasing the Just Therapy Team from New Zealand, it is the therapist’s responsibility to open possibilities for clients, bringing forward other stories in their lives, and in doing so, offering them liberation.

It’s in the core of her work to believe that people that seeks her for counselling come to the therapeutic setting with a number of skills, competencies, beliefs, values, commitments and abilities. By uncovering, discussing and appreciating them she will assist her clients in the process of changing their relationship with the problem in their lives.

Mariana is highly committed to continue her professional development by learning from others and this certainly transpires in her practice by offering to her clients the latest innovation in the field.
She is a member of a number of professional associations including the American Family Therapy Association, American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy, Canadian Counselling Association.
She is an approved therapy provider for First Nation Inuit Health Branch, Compensation for Victims of Crime, Worker’s Compensation Board, Aurora Family Therapy Centre Immigration Program.