About Mary
Mary Alice Emert is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) practicing in Pennsylvania with 25 years of experience. She helps people who are dealing with anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and the stress of everyday life. Her style is warm and direct, aimed at practical steps rather than lengthy theory.
She uses a client-centered approach so people feel heard and respected. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is part of her work when patterns of thinking and behavior need to change.
How Mary works
She also draws on mindfulness practices to help people manage strong emotions and stay grounded. Her background includes long-term experience supporting those facing grief, trauma, and compassion fatigue. She also focuses on issues around parenting, adoption and foster care, caregiving stress, blended family challenges, and aging-related concerns.
She helps people build communication skills, increase self-esteem, and cope with life transitions. Mary Alice integrates elements of the Gottman Method for people wanting to improve relationship interactions and problem-solving. Motivational Interviewing is used when clients want help finding internal motivation to make changes.
Sessions aim to be collaborative, with clear goals and measurable steps. People who prefer a practical, supportive tone will likely feel comfortable with her. She explains interventions in plain language and checks in about what is working.
Her long experience means she has a broad toolkit and a steady, patient approach to helping people move forward.
Mary lists 6 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
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
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Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Pennsylvania |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience. In online sessions this means the therapist helps clients tell their story, set goals, and choose what feels most important to work on. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is often well suited to video or phone sessions where worksheets and practice tasks can be reviewed together.Mary Alice will work with each person to decide which approaches fit best. She uses a collaborative process to match techniques to a client's needs, goals, and preferences and checks in regularly to adjust the plan. The aim is to find a manageable way forward rather than push a single method.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and practicing interpersonal skills. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth or camera use is an issue. Live chat or messaging can work for quick check-ins, brief problem-solving, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between appointments.
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