About Mary
Mary Blair is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) practicing in South Dakota with 18 years of experience. She has worked as a psychotherapist, consultant, and chaplain in hospice and hospital settings. Mary addresses a wide range of concerns and aims to meet people where they are.
Her work often focuses on relationship struggles, grief and loss, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. She also helps people dealing with trauma and abuse, stress, self-esteem, intimacy-related issues, eating concerns, parenting strains, career questions, and compassion fatigue.
How Mary works
Additional areas include abandonment, attachment concerns, aging and geriatric issues, cancer-related concerns, and hospice and end-of-life counseling. Mary blends several clinical approaches to fit each person. She uses client-centered methods to follow what the person brings, psychodynamic ideas to look at patterns from the past, and somatic or body-focused practices to address how stress and trauma live in the body.
Trauma-focused tools are used when a history of harm needs careful attention. Her style is collaborative and respectful. She invites clients to take the lead when appropriate and pays attention to mind, body, and spirit as each person defines them.
Sessions aim to be practical and grounded in daily life. Mary’s background as a chaplain shapes her comfort with grief, hospice, and end-of-life issues. She combines that experience with counseling skills to support people facing major life changes.
The goal is clearer understanding, stronger coping, and workable next steps.
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.
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 18 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | South Dakota |
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Online support options
How Mary’s approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and following the person’s lead. In online sessions this means the therapist checks in regularly about goals and priorities and adjusts the pace to what feels most useful. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple awareness practices to help manage stress and anxiety; online sessions can coach breathing, grounding, and noticing thoughts in ways that transfer to daily routines.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose which methods to try based on needs, goals, and preferences. That might mean starting with client-centered conversation, adding mindfulness exercises, or trying body-focused techniques when helpful.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper connection. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to check in between sessions or for people who prefer writing. These options make scheduling more flexible and help therapy fit into a busy life.
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