About Mary
Mary Smith is a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) with 23 years of experience helping adults manage stress, anxiety, depression, and ADHD. She offers steady, straightforward support for people who feel overwhelmed, stuck, or uncertain about next steps. Her style is warm and practical, aimed at making small changes that add up over time.
Mary listens first and builds goals with each person she sees. Sessions focus on improving communication, coping with life changes, and reducing isolation.
Background and approach
She helps people sort through grief, trauma, relationship strains, and work-related pressure in clear, manageable steps. Her background blends several approaches so therapy is tailored to the individual. Mary uses client-centered methods to follow what matters most to each person.
She also draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and develop new skills for daily life. Mindfulness practices are offered to improve attention, sleep, and emotional regulation. Motivational interviewing is used when someone wants to make a significant change but is unsure where to begin.
Psychodynamic ideas can help uncover patterns that repeat across relationships and time. Mary practices in Michigan and works with people from a range of backgrounds and life stages. Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
Her aim is to make therapy a collaborative process that fits real life and real schedules.
Approaches and how online therapy fits your life
Mary uses client-centered therapy to follow each person's priorities and build goals together. This approach centers on listening, validating experiences, and shaping sessions around what the client says matters most. It is useful for people wanting a supportive space to sort feelings and choices.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes. CBT is practical for anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and improving day-to-day functioning. Mindfulness techniques are offered to help with attention, emotional regulation, and sleep by practicing simple present-moment exercises.
Choosing the right approach is collaborative. Mary will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before. Together the person and therapist decide which methods to try and adjust them as progress and needs change.
Online therapy makes these approaches accessible through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good for full conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, tracking goals, or when writing feels easier than speaking. The mix of formats allows therapy to fit around work, caregiving, and travel while keeping focus on steady, practical progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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