About Mary
Mary Cassidy is a California-based licensed marriage and family therapist with 20 years of experience. She focuses on helping people cope with stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy concerns, and big life changes. Mary speaks English and works with individuals who want practical help and steady support.
Mary offers a calm, straightforward style in sessions. She listens first and helps clients name what feels most urgent. Together they set clear, manageable goals and practice new ways of handling day-to-day stress and difficult conversations.
How Mary works
Her background includes long-term clinical work with people facing trauma, grief, parenting pressures, career shifts, and family conflict. She draws on approaches that encourage self-awareness, present-focused skills, and changes in unhelpful thinking. This mix helps with problems like abandonment, attachment worries, body image, and codependency.
In therapy Mary uses tools that people can try between sessions. She may guide mindfulness exercises to reduce tension, suggest cognitive-behavioral techniques to reframe negative thoughts, and rely on client-centered pacing so each person moves at their own speed. Sessions aim to build coping strategies that fit a client's daily life.
Practical concerns such as blended family challenges, divorce and separation, fertility-related stress, or caregiver strain are part of her practice. Mary helps people sort priorities, improve communication, and reclaim a sense of direction after disruption.
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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
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How Mary’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person’s experience. The therapist follows the client’s lead, offers empathy, and helps people find their own solutions for relationship concerns, self-esteem, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches practical exercises to change unhelpful thinking and develop healthier habits, which can help with anxiety, stress, and mood shifts.
Mindfulness Therapy uses brief exercises to build awareness of the present moment. These practices can reduce reactivity, calm the body, and provide tools for coping with grief, trauma reminders, or everyday tension.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Mary will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. Together they’ll adjust techniques based on what helps most in weekly sessions.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for skill practice and emotional checking. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat or text-based messaging supports shorter check-ins, journaling-style reflection, or steady support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life or when travel is difficult.
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