About Mary
Mary Jo Ayllon is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 12 years of experience. She practices as an LPC and LCMHC and works from North Carolina. Mary Jo focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, ADHD, and related life challenges.
Her sessions aim to create comfort and trust so people can talk frankly about what’s hard. She meets each person where they are and supports steady progress toward their goals.
Background and approach
Sessions are goal-focused but paced to match each person’s needs. Mary Jo draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to help people change unhelpful thinking and habits. She also uses mindfulness practices to build calm and present-moment awareness.
Attachment-based ideas guide work on relationships and patterns that repeat across close connections. She has helped people coping with trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, workplace stress, and major life changes. Mary Jo also addresses concerns such as obsessive thoughts, eating issues, postpartum depression, pregnancy and childbirth concerns, and multicultural stressors.
When faith matters to a person, she can include a Biblically integrative perspective so therapy reflects spiritual beliefs alongside psychological tools. That option is available when clients request it and fits their goals and values. Practical tools and steady support are central in her approach.
Clients may use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging for appointments, and scheduling follows a short matching process to connect people to her practice.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then take values-guided action. This approach can help with anxiety, depression, and frustration related to ADHD. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing them with practical behavior changes to reduce symptoms like worry or low mood. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at relationship patterns and how early connections shape present behaviors and expectations, which can be useful for relationship or family concerns.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to choose and adapt methods based on their goals, needs, and preferences. Plans are adjusted as progress unfolds so the work stays relevant and useful.
Online sessions offer flexibility with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people work face to face when that helps progress. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text are useful for steady support between sessions and for people who prefer writing to speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and varied schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Georgia, North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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