About Mary
Mary Griffith is a licensed professional counselor with 15 years of experience helping people through hard moments. She focuses on common struggles like anxiety, depression, stress, relationship and intimacy concerns, and ADHD. Mary aims to provide steady, practical support in sessions that respect each person's background and identity.
Her style is warm and down-to-earth. She listens closely and helps clients name what matters most. Sessions often include straightforward skills people can try between meetings.
Background and approach
She also helps people sort through grief, addiction-related issues, and major life changes. Mary uses several therapy approaches to match each person's needs. She draws on client-centered listening to create a nonjudgmental space.
She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas help clients clarify values and take small actions toward them. Her work includes support for caregiving stress, chronic illness, and work-related burnout.
She also addresses attachment and identity questions, including issues related to LGBT experiences. Mary works with people facing trauma, abuse, and compassion fatigue, helping them build coping tools and improve day-to-day functioning. Clients can expect practical steps and reflective conversation.
Mary helps people develop routines for better sleep, healthier boundaries, and clearer communication. Her goal is to help clients feel more grounded and able to move forward with intention.
Practical approaches for online therapy
Mary often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify their values and take small steps toward a life that matters to them. ACT focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, which can help with anxiety, depression, and motivation struggles.She also uses Client-Centered Therapy, which centers on empathetic listening and respect for each person's experience. This approach helps people feel heard and build trust in the work, useful for relationship issues, grief, and identity questions.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Mary works collaboratively to choose methods that fit a person's goals and preferences, and she adjusts techniques as progress is observed. Clients and the therapist together decide what tools to try and when to shift course.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people see facial cues and work through exercises in real time. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone wants to avoid being on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging make shorter check-ins or ongoing support possible between sessions, helping therapy fit into a busy schedule.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- 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
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English
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