About Mary
Dr. Mary Ann Hensley is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) and a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 23 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and ADHD. She works with individuals who are coping with trauma, grief, parenting challenges, relationship strain, and changes in life circumstances.
Her style is straightforward and practical, aimed at giving people tools they can use day to day. In sessions she focuses on clear problem solving and emotional support.
Background and approach
Mary Ann blends approaches such as cognitive behavioral techniques and client-centered listening to help people notice patterns and try new responses. She also uses trauma-focused methods when past harm affects current wellbeing. Her work often centers on building skills for managing panic, anger, and low self-esteem.
She helps people facing multicultural stress, immigration-related concerns, and compassion fatigue from caregiving roles. She can also address issues linked to autism and Asperger syndrome and challenges common in young adulthood. Mary Ann aims to make therapy practical.
She teaches coping strategies, communication tools, and ways to handle intense emotions. The goal is to leave each session with at least one small, useful step to try before the next meeting. People who choose her tend to want clear guidance and a steady therapeutic presence.
She encourages honesty, active problem solving, and gradual change. Her practice is based in Florida and sessions are offered in English.
Using proven approaches in online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice their thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It often focuses on building willingness to feel difficult emotions while moving toward meaningful goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is commonly used for anxiety, panic, depression, and stress-related problems.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That may mean trying a CBT skill for a few sessions, then shifting to ACT or trauma-focused work if past events are affecting daily life.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people have full conversation and nonverbal cues when that matters. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth or camera use is limited, and text-based messaging or live chat can support shorter check-ins and skill practice between full sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, and family schedules, and to keep treatment consistent when life gets busy.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Immigration issues
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Georgia, Florida
- Languages
- English
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