About Mary
Mary Stone is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in New York with 11 years of clinical experience. She focuses on trauma and abuse, career concerns, compassion fatigue, and attention and focus challenges often described as ADHD. She speaks English and works with clients from different backgrounds, including those living outside the United States.
Mary believes each person knows their own story best. She builds sessions around what a person brings and helps them use their strengths to address hard moments.
Background and approach
Her style is direct and respectful, aiming to make difficult topics easier to talk about. In session she uses a mix of methods. Client-centered work keeps the person's priorities central.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers concrete skills for managing intense emotions. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) can be used when people are processing past trauma. She also uses motivational interviewing and narrative therapy to help people change unhelpful patterns and reframe how they view difficult experiences.
These approaches are adapted to practical goals like improving attention at work, coping with burnout, or managing painful memories. Mary supports people taking a step toward change and recognizes that starting therapy takes courage. She invites new clients to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions when ready.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's goals and priorities, and online sessions allow the therapist to follow those concerns directly. In this approach the therapist listens, reflects, and helps people decide what matters most to work on and how to get there.Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches hands-on skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. These skill-building sessions can include coaching, practice, and short exercises over video or messaging to support steady progress.
EMDR is a method used to process distressing memories and reduce their intensity. In online work it can be delivered with guided procedures adapted for video sessions, helping people reprocess difficult experiences without needing in-person attendance.
Choosing the right approach is part of the first sessions. The therapist will collaborate with the client to match methods to goals, needs, and comfort. That process can include trying different techniques and checking in about what helps.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and EMDR work, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging let people check in between sessions or fit brief conversations into a busy day. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while adapting to real-life schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Trauma and abuse
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
Also listed
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Immigration issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Personality disorders
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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