About Mary
Mary Herro uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, grief, and other struggles. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Arizona with three decades of experience. Mary aims to treat people with respect, sensitivity, and compassion.
Her approach is practical and tailored. She works with each person to shape conversations and plans around what they need right now. That can mean setting small goals, finding coping steps that fit daily life, or talking through painful memories until they feel less overwhelming.
How Mary works
Mary has worked for 30 years in clinical settings across Arizona. That broad experience informs how she responds to common problems like depression, anger, and self-esteem concerns. It also guides her work with issues such as trauma and abuse, eating concerns, addiction, and challenges related to identity and loss.
She also focuses on relationship topics from a single-person perspective - parenting concerns, blended family dynamics, attachment issues, and adoption or foster-care related hurting. She addresses career stress, bipolar mood concerns, ADHD, and life transitions in concrete ways people can try between sessions. Mary aims to empower people to make lasting changes.
She emphasizes collaboration, clear steps, and steady support while you work through grief, anxiety, addiction, or other struggles. Her style is straightforward and compassionate, designed to help people move toward a more satisfying life.
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
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 30 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Arizona |
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Online support options
Evidence-based care and flexible online options
Mary uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical skills and measurable change. One common approach teaches coping and stress-management skills to help reduce anxiety and strong emotions; it emphasizes simple exercises and routines people can use day to day. Another frequent focus is relapse-prevention and behavior-change work for addictions, which breaks larger goals into manageable steps and builds safer choices over time.Finding the right approach is collaborative. Mary will talk with each person about goals, needs, and preferences and then select techniques that fit. She adjusts methods over time based on what is working and what needs more focus so the plan stays aligned with the person’s progress.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls work well when visual contact helps the conversation. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter, ongoing support between sessions or quick notes when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules.
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