About Mary
Mary McLaggan is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 20 years of experience. She speaks English and Spanish and offers support for people managing stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and life transitions. Her style is respectful and direct, focused on practical steps a person can take to feel steadier day to day.
She begins by listening to what matters most to each person. Sessions focus on real concerns like sleep disruption, low self-esteem, relationship strain, grief, or workplace stress.
Background and approach
Conversations are tailored so goals are clear and achievable over time. Mary draws on several therapy approaches to match the work to each person's needs. Cognitive behavioral techniques help identify unhelpful thinking patterns and change behaviors.
Attachment-based ideas look at how early relationships affect current trust and closeness. Dialectical behavior strategies offer skills for emotion regulation and coping in intense moments. Over two decades she has worked with people facing trauma, identity questions, parenting stress, and complicated grief.
She aims to create a calm, respectful space where someone can try new ways of managing emotions and relationships. Her experience includes helping those dealing with bipolar symptoms, compassion fatigue, and neurodiversity-related concerns. Mary is based in Iowa and uses a flexible session format including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging.
She encourages people to take the first step by sharing what feels most urgent, so a clear plan can be built together.
How Mary’s Approaches Work Online
Mary uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors that lead to better results. This approach is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and day-to-day coping skills.She also draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how past relationship patterns shape current trust, communication, and intimacy struggles. That work can help with relationship problems, intimacy-related issues, and building more reliable connections with others.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Mary will listen to your goals and try methods that fit your needs and preferences. Together you’ll track what helps and adjust the plan as you go, using a mix of skills training, talk, and practical homework when useful.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when you want visual cues. Phone sessions are a good option when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick reflections, ongoing check-ins, or people who prefer writing between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or school schedules while still doing meaningful therapeutic work with a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- 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
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Iowa
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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