About Mary
Mary Dellinger is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) who uses a person-centered approach to help people make changes that matter. She focuses on practical skills and honest conversation so clients can cope better with life stress and emotional struggles. She blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness practices to fit each person’s needs.
Sessions may include learning new thinking patterns, trying simple coping tools, or practicing ways to stay calmer in the moment.
How Mary works
Treatment is shaped around goals such as managing anxiety, improving sleep, or handling grief. Mary draws on a psychodynamic perspective when deeper patterns from the past affect present behavior. That can help when issues like attachment, abandonment, or long-standing relationship patterns come up.
She also supports people dealing with mood concerns such as depression, bipolar symptoms, and disruptive mood challenges. Practical problems like parenting stress, career decisions, addictions, and caregiving strain are also part of her work. Mary pays attention to how health conditions, chronic pain, or developmental differences, including autism and Asperger syndrome, influence daily life and coping.
Her ten years of experience in South Carolina inform a calm, steady style. Sessions are meant to be conversational and goal focused, with steps that are realistic and manageable. Mary helps clients break big problems into smaller actions to build momentum and relief over 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
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | South Carolina |
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Online support options
Approaches and online therapy options
Mary uses client-centered therapy to put the person's needs and goals first, offering a supportive space where the conversation guides the work and priorities come from the client. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, is used to identify and change unhelpful thought patterns and to build practical skills for anxiety, sleep problems, and mood concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Mary works together with each person to decide which methods make the most sense for their goals and preferences. That collaborative planning means adjustments can be made as therapy progresses so the work stays relevant and useful.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and clearer nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when clients prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging provide brief check-ins, written reflections, or shorter sessions that can fit into a busy day. These options make it simpler to keep continuity of care and to fit sessions around work, caregiving, or other commitments.
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