About Mary
Mary Brown is a licensed clinical social worker with four years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, and major life changes. She focuses on practical skills that make daily life easier. Mary also supports parents working through parenting challenges and people rebuilding self-esteem.
Mary uses straightforward, evidence-based methods to create small, useful changes. Sessions often focus on problem-solving, coping tools, and clearer communication. She draws on approaches that help people reframe difficult experiences and set manageable goals.
How Mary works
In practice Mary listens for patterns that get in the way of feeling steady. She helps people spot unhelpful thoughts, try new behaviors, and track what works. For those who have experienced abuse or trauma she offers focused techniques to address painful memories at a pace the person can handle.
Mary also works with concerns like adoption and foster care, attachment issues, body image, chronic pain or illness, and substance concerns. She addresses mood challenges, panic attacks, isolation, and the stresses that come with pregnancy and childbirth. Sessions combine short-term goal work and longer-term healing depending on the person's needs.
People leave with concrete steps to practice between visits and a clearer sense of what they want to change next.
Mary lists 5 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
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Forgiveness
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Wisconsin |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions that fit your life
Mary often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change thoughts and behaviors that feed anxiety or low mood. CBT breaks problems into smaller steps and offers practical exercises to try between sessions. Motivational Interviewing is another approach she uses to help people clarify their goals and find the motivation to make changes; it focuses on the person’s values and strengths and works well for issues like substance use or making lifestyle shifts.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Mary treats choosing methods as a collaborative process and adjusts techniques to match each person’s goals, challenges, and pace. She checks in about what’s helpful and what needs to change so therapy stays relevant and manageable.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when more interaction is useful. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is low or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people reach out between sessions for brief updates or coaching-style exchanges. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules while working with licensed professionals and therapists who can tailor care over time.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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