About Mary
Mary "Christine" Lawson helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, mood swings, and life changes. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor - Mental Health Service Provider, LPC-MHSP, based in Tennessee. Sessions are offered in English and French.
She uses practical tools and clear steps to help clients move forward. Christine draws on seven years of counseling experience. She focuses on everyday problems like sleeping and eating difficulties, parenting strain, work stress, and relationship conflict.
How Mary works
She also supports people dealing with grief, addiction, anger, low self-esteem, and compassion fatigue. Her work often addresses deeper patterns such as attachment wounds, abandonment fears, codependency, and family of origin issues. She also helps with challenges linked to autism and Asperger syndrome, chronic illness and pain, and separation or divorce.
When trauma is present, she uses trauma-focused strategies alongside other methods. In sessions, Christine aims to make things clear and doable. She uses approaches that teach skills, change unhelpful thinking, and set small goals for progress.
Conversations are collaborative and focused on practical steps clients can try between meetings. Therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Cost varies by location and follows a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
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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
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC-MHSP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English, French |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Tennessee |
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Online support options
How her approaches fit online therapy
Christine commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Trauma-Focused Therapy, and also applies elements of Dialectical Behavior Therapy when helpful. CBT focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and is often used for anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating problems. Trauma-Focused Therapy addresses the impact of traumatic experiences and helps people process memories and reduce their hold on daily life. Dialectical Behavior Therapy adds skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening interpersonal effectiveness.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Christine will talk with each person about their goals, symptoms, and what they prefer. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust plans based on what works over time.
Online therapy offers flexibility with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let the therapist and client work face to face when visual cues matter. Phone sessions may be easier when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging provide quick touchpoints and support between scheduled sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy lives and to continue care from different locations.
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