About Mary
Mary "Christine" Lawson is a Licensed Professional Counselor - Mental Health Service Provider (LPC-MHSP) based in Tennessee. She brings seven years of counseling experience and speaks English and French. Mary Christine focuses on practical help for everyday struggles like anxiety, depression, stress, ADHD, and grief.
She aims to make sessions straightforward and goal-focused. Clients work together with her to set clear steps and routines that fit daily life. She uses approaches that teach skills for coping, managing emotions, and solving problems.
Background and approach
Her background includes work with people facing trauma, relationship and family concerns, addiction, and a range of personality and attachment issues. That experience shapes a flexible approach that adjusts to each person’s situation. Mary Christine pays attention to both immediate needs and longer term patterns.
Therapeutic tools she draws on include cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking, dialectical behavior methods to manage strong emotions, and motivational interviewing to support meaningful change. She also uses solution-focused and trauma-informed strategies when they match a client's goals. Sessions can include practical exercises, problem-solving, and tracking progress between meetings.
She supports parents handling parenting stress, caregivers dealing with burnout, and people coping with chronic illness and life transitions. The tone in sessions is respectful and direct, with an emphasis on skills you can use right away. To begin, Mary Christine asks people to identify goals and chooses methods that fit those goals.
Therapy is collaborative and paced to what each person needs.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on noticing and changing patterns of thinking and behavior that make problems worse. It is often used for anxiety, depression, ADHD-related routines, and sleep or eating concerns by teaching concrete strategies to test thoughts and try new behaviors.DBT, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, emphasizes skills for managing intense emotions, improving frustration tolerance, and practicing better communication. People who struggle with strong reactions, anger, or relationship stress often find the skills helpful.
Motivational Interviewing helps people find their own reasons to change and set manageable steps toward goals. It can support work on addictions, lifestyle changes, and building commitment to new routines.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about symptoms, goals, and preferences, then choose or blend methods that fit. That decision is collaborative and may shift as progress is tracked.
Online sessions make regular work easier to fit into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill coaching, phone sessions can be a quicker check-in or helpful when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging can support brief updates, homework review, or ongoing encouragement between longer sessions. These options add flexibility so people can keep therapy consistent while balancing school, work, or caregiving.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English, French
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