About Mary
Mary Allen uses an approach that centers on attachment, mindfulness, and practical thinking skills. She combines those approaches in clear, goal-focused sessions. Mary is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, with three decades of practice.
She works from Wisconsin and conducts sessions in English. Mary spends sessions helping people sort out stress and anxiety. She helps with depression, grief, and trauma and abuse concerns.
She also addresses relationship and intimacy-related issues and supports people navigating parenting and career stresses.
How Mary works
Her style is warm and direct. Conversations aim to be practical and interactive. Clients set goals and Mary helps shape step-by-step plans to reach them.
She uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early bonds affect current connections. She uses mindfulness to teach ways to steady attention and ease emotional arousal. Cognitive behavioral techniques help spot unhelpful thoughts and change patterns that feed anxiety or low mood.
Mary has 31 years of clinical experience. That time includes work with people facing compassion fatigue, chronic illness and pain, adoption and foster care questions, and aging issues. She also helps people managing ADHD symptoms, abandonment or attachment concerns, and those coping after separation or bereavement.
Sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. The process begins with a short matching questionnaire and scheduling that fits each person's needs. Mary aims to support clear progress toward the goals people bring to therapy.
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
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 31 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Wisconsin |
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Online support options
Attachment and Cognitive Tools for Online Care
Mary integrates attachment-based work and cognitive behavioral approaches into online sessions. Attachment-based therapy looks at how early relationships shape current trust and closeness and helps people change patterns that interfere with relationships. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences, and together they will choose approaches and techniques that fit. That collaboration shapes the focus and pace of work rather than forcing a single method.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use face-to-face interaction from a chosen location. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins or paced communication between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or medical schedules while still working with licensed professionals.
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