Education:

	M.S.W., Virginia Commonwealth University
	B.A., The Catholic University of America

Professional Background:

Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Virginia

Clinical Specialty Areas:

	Adults and Older Adolescents		Depression and Anxiety Disorders
	Individual Therapy		Marriage and Family Relationships
	Couples Therapy -Imago		Spirituality
	Group Therapy		Mind-Body Integration
	Relational Psychotherapies		Public Speaking

Mary Jean Kane is a licensed clinical social worker. She works with individual adults and older adolescents, couples, family members, and groups, and leads a Depression Growth Group for men and women with depression and bipolar disorder. Mary Jean's style of therapy is interactive, using her areas of specialization in relational psychotherapies, including self-psychology and intersubjectivity. Mary Jean works with people on problems of everyday living, longstanding emotional issues which affect day-to-day living, issues of self-esteem and self-image, spirituality, and serious mental illness. Her approach combines psychodynamic psychotherapy (talk therapy) and experiential therapies, drawing on imagery, Gestault therapy, psychodrama, and Focusing, and she uses Imago Relationship therapy methods with couples and other family relationships. Mary Jean also presents workshops to professional and lay audiences on a variety of topics, including marriage relationships and Focusing, a mind-body approach used to enhance emotional and spiritual awareness and understanding.

Mary Jean graduated with honors from Virginia Commonwealth University School of Social Work and has been training extensively in an advanced psychotherapy training program at The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis in Washington, D.C. She has done inpatient and outpatient psychiatric work at Dominion Hospital in Falls Church, Virginia; Northern Virginia Community Hospital; The Washington, D.C. Commission on Mental Health Services with the seriously mentally ill; and with graduate and undergraduate students at The American University Center for Psychological and Learning Services.  Prior to her social work career, Mary Jean raised four children and was a preschool teacher.  She also served in leadership and advocacy roles in her community's public school system for 18 years.

Professional Affiliations:

	National Association of Social Workers - Virginia Chapter
	Nominations and Leadership Identification Committee
	Northern Virginia District Planning Committee
	Greater Washington Society for Clinical Social Work
	Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis Board Member
	Depression and Related Affective Disorders Association

For more information, call Mary Jean Kane, LCSW at (703) 550-4298 or email her at mjklcsw@aol.com.

Stone House psychiatrists, psychologists and clinical social workers offer individual psychotherapy, group therapy, couples therapy, substance abuse counseling, medication evaluation and medication management in the areas of Washington, DC, Northern Virginia, and Maryland including Falls Church, Fairfax, Alexandria, Arlington, McLean, Prince William County, Prince Georges County and Montgomery County.