About Mary
Mary Aubrey is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker with 40 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family problems, grief, and addiction concerns. She practices in Massachusetts and works with adults who are dealing with life changes, parenting strain, eating and body image worries, and challenges around intimacy and communication.
Mary has worked in many settings over four decades, including college mental health, community agencies, crisis intervention, hospital services, and independent practice.
How Mary works
She earned her Master of Social Work in 1985 from Smith College School for Social Work and has continued to support people across a broad range of issues since then. Her approach is collaborative and straightforward. She starts by listening to how a person understands their situation.
Together they set concrete goals and track progress so sessions stay focused and useful. Mary uses a mix of methods to match a person's needs. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thinking and behaviors, psychodynamic ideas to look at longer-standing patterns, and solution-focused strategies to find practical steps forward.
This variety helps tailor the work to different problems and personalities. Sessions cover everyday concerns like work stress, caregiver burnout, codependency, and midlife questions. Mary pays attention to how family of origin issues, communication problems, guilt and shame, and life purpose shape current difficulties.
Her style is calm, experienced, and oriented toward practical change. People seeking support can expect direct conversation, clear goal-setting, and options for short-term problem solving or deeper, longer-term exploration depending on what they prefer.
Mary lists 3 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
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LICSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 40 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Massachusetts |
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Online support options
Online approaches that fit your life
Mary often combines Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Solution-Focused Therapy when working online. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing patterns of behavior that keep problems going, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Solution-Focused Therapy centers on practical steps and small changes you can try right away to see improvement, which helps with relationship issues, life transitions, and coping with everyday challenges.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will ask about your goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Then she and the client decide collaboratively which methods to try and adjust them as progress is tracked.
Online therapy makes those approaches more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that matters. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or you need a simpler check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging let you send updates, try short reflections between sessions, and fit support into a busy day. These options help people maintain continuity of care and make it easier to work on goals from wherever they are.
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