About Mary
Mary Tobias is a licensed marriage and family therapist and a licensed professional counselor in Louisiana. She brings three years of clinical experience helping adults face stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, grief, trauma, and relationship struggles. Her style is warm and attentive and she treats each person as the expert on their life.
Mary listens closely and helps people identify practical tools they can use day to day. She works collaboratively to build plans that fit a person's routine and goals.
Background and approach
Sessions are interactive and focused on what the individual finds most helpful. Her work draws from client-centered approaches that prioritize the person's perspective and lived experience. Mary also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people spot unhelpful thinking and try small behavior changes.
Emotionally focused ideas guide conversations about connection and attachment when relationship concerns come up. She brings mindfulness and existential perspectives into sessions too, helping people notice present-moment experience and consider meaning and values during life changes. Mary has additional experience with first responder issues and supports people managing the stresses of those roles.
Mary offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. She practices in Louisiana and conducts sessions in English.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person's perspective. It helps people feel heard and guides sessions around their priorities and goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and helps people try small, practical behavior changes to reduce distress. Emotionally focused therapy concentrates on patterns in close relationships and helps people notice and shift how they respond to each other to improve connection.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Mary collaborates with each person to choose and adjust methods based on individual needs, goals, and preferences. She will check in about what is working and adapt the plan so sessions stay useful and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and deeper emotional work, phone sessions can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth, and chat or text messaging works for brief check-ins, tracking goals, or when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and keep continuity between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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