About Mary
Mary Johnston is a Licensed Professional Counselor with ten years of experience in clinical settings. She offers calm, practical help for people feeling overwhelmed by mood, substance use, trauma, or relationship strain. Her style is down-to-earth and nonjudgmental, with a focus on meeting people where they are.
In sessions she listens first to understand concerns and daily pressures. She helps people map small, doable steps toward clearer routines and healthier choices.
Background and approach
Conversations often focus on coping skills, problem-solving, and reducing the behaviors that get in the way of goals. Her background includes work in outpatient and group treatment environments. Much of her caseload has involved substance abuse, depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress, and related issues such as guilt and shame.
She also has experience addressing blended family dynamics and parenting stress. Mary draws on client-centered methods to build trust and on cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking and habits. She uses solution-focused strategies to set short-term targets and track progress.
These approaches are used in ways that fit each person’s situation. She provides therapy remotely by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Sessions are organized through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Appointments are scheduled after completing a short matching questionnaire and choosing times that work with the therapist’s schedule.
How Mary’s Approaches Work Online
Mary uses client-centered work to make space for each person’s story and priorities, focusing on listening and building a supportive relationship that guides the work. This approach helps people who feel judged or overwhelmed get started with goals that matter to them.She also applies cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors in everyday life. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, ADHD-related struggles with focus and routines, and for changing patterns that feed stress.
Solution-focused therapy is used to set short-term, practical goals and notice what changes first. That method helps when someone wants clear steps and quick ways to test what works between sessions.
Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That means adjusting pace, homework, and check-ins as progress unfolds.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face work when visual cues help, phone calls are good for lower bandwidth or when being on camera isn’t needed, and chat or text can suit quick check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make scheduling easier and let people fit therapy into busy days.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Guilt and shame
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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