About Mary
Mary Hargarten is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 25 years of experience. She practices in Wisconsin and offers therapy in straightforward, compassionate ways. Mary focuses on helping people find practical coping skills for life’s challenges.
She draws on several approaches including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and client-centered work. Sessions focus on clear goals such as reducing anxiety, managing mood swings, improving relationships, or handling grief.
How Mary works
Mary helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and build actions that match their values. Mary pays attention to how family background shapes current choices and feelings. She’ll help clients separate longstanding family patterns from what they want now.
This can be useful for communication problems, family conflict, or decisions around divorce and separation. Her experience also covers caregiver stress, aging and geriatric concerns, postpartum depression, trauma and abuse, and intimacy-related issues. She emphasizes strengths and practical steps, helping people develop skills they can use between sessions.
Mary aims to be warm, non-judgmental, and occasionally humorous while working alongside each person. Therapy sessions can be arranged as video calls, phone conversations, live chat, or text messaging. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions based on the therapist’s availability.
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
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCSW, LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Wisconsin |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How Mary Uses Practical Approaches Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify their values and take small steps toward them while learning to accept feelings that don’t go away quickly. It is useful for anxiety, chronic stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like panic, depression, or panic attacks. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening, empathy, and supporting each person’s own goals so they feel understood while they make changes.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Mary will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit best based on their goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. She blends approaches as needed, and checks in regularly about progress and any adjustments to treatment.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people meet face-to-face when visual connection matters. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat or text-based messaging support shorter check-ins, on-the-go reflection, and ongoing encouragement between sessions. These options make it possible to fit therapy into different routines and life demands.
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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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