About Mary
Mary Cole is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Georgia with 15 years of clinical experience. She offers a warm, interactive style and a practical focus so people can feel more in control of their emotions and decisions. She creates a supportive, nonjudgmental space where people can talk through tough feelings.
Sessions focus on recognizing patterns, building emotional regulation, and learning simple grounding skills to reduce anxiety and panic.
How Mary works
Mary aims to help people boost self-worth and set clearer boundaries so they stop defaulting to people-pleasing. Her approach mixes structured techniques and compassionate listening. She uses cognitive-behavioral ideas to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, mindfulness to calm racing minds, and acceptance-based methods to make room for hard emotions without getting overwhelmed.
Motivational interviewing helps when people feel stuck and ready to make changes. Mary often works with concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, anger, and compassion fatigue. She also addresses relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, workplace stress, and questions about life purpose and self-love.
In sessions she focuses on practical steps: teaching breathing and grounding practices, shaping new communication habits, and building plans for small behavior changes. Her goal is to leave people feeling understood, more resilient, and able to act on what matters to them.
Mary lists 7 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
- Anger management
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Georgia |
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Online support options
How Mary blends practical approaches in online therapy
Mary uses cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help people notice and change thought patterns that feed anxiety, depression, and panic attacks; CBT focuses on small behavioral experiments and skill practice to shift mood and reactions. She also draws on mindfulness therapy to teach simple breathing and grounding exercises that calm the body and reduce rumination, which can be helpful for stress, panic, and seasonal mood changes.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Mary will discuss your goals and preferences and try methods that fit your needs, adjusting techniques over time so sessions remain useful and relevant. The process is collaborative and paced to what you feel ready to try.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face connection for deeper conversation and skill demonstration. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a camera-free option is preferred. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, written exercises, and ongoing coaching between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, or other routines while still working on emotional regulation, communication, and life changes.
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