About Mary
Mary Smith is a licensed social worker with 23 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and addiction. She works with adults facing relationship struggles, parenting strain, grief, and major life changes. Mary focuses on clear, practical steps and steady emotional support.
Mary uses straightforward conversations to identify the problems that cause daily pain. She blends client-centered listening with goal-oriented methods to build coping skills. Sessions tend to focus on what matters most now - sleeping, mood, work stress, or difficult relationships - and on small, doable changes.
How Mary works
Her background includes long experience with trauma and abuse, bipolar disorder, and co-occurring conditions. Mary also addresses concerns like ADHD, anger, intimacy-related issues, and compassion fatigue. She draws on multiple approaches to meet each person where they are.
In practice, Mary mixes cognitive behavioral techniques with mindfulness and psychodynamic ideas. That combination helps people notice patterns, try new behaviors, and reflect on deeper feelings that influence choices. Motivational interviewing is used when someone needs help finding internal reasons to change.
Mary’s work is practical and paced to each person. She helps people rebuild routines, improve communication, and manage symptoms so life feels more manageable. Her goal is steady progress rather than quick fixes.
Mary lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Mary works with
The areas below are the ones Mary selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 23 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How these approaches work online and what to expect
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person’s experience without judgment. The therapist reflects concerns back, helps clarify feelings, and supports people in finding their own solutions; this approach is useful for relationship worries, low self-esteem, and coping with life changes.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. Sessions teach practical skills like breaking down unhelpful thoughts, building routines, and trying small behavior changes to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, or manage mood swings.
Mindfulness therapy trains simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and build steadiness. It is often paired with other methods to help with stress, grief, and ongoing worry.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a shared process. Mary will work collaboratively to choose methods that match a person’s goals, needs, and preferences, and she will adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility across several formats: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth is limited, live chat for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or travel while maintaining continuity of care.
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