About Mary
Mary Jo Ayllon is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) with 12 years of experience. She brings a calm, encouraging presence and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, parenting challenges, and life transitions. She uses straightforward, goal-focused work while moving at a pace that feels right for each person.
Sessions emphasize practical strategies for coping, clearer thinking around difficult feelings, and building small habits that lead to steady change.
How Mary works
Clients can expect a friendly, respectful listener who links goals to everyday steps. Her background includes work with trauma and abuse, obsessive-compulsive concerns, ADHD, body image and eating issues, and workplace stresses. She also addresses relationship and family problems, abandonment and attachment issues, and the emotional effects of multicultural stressors.
That range helps when problems touch more than one part of life. Mary Jo integrates several psychological approaches to match individual needs. She uses cognitive behavioral methods to change unhelpful thinking patterns, mindfulness to reduce reactivity and increase calm, and attachment-focused ideas to strengthen how people relate to others.
She also offers a faith-informed option for those who want spiritual themes included. Sessions are provided from North Carolina and are offered in English. Her style aims to create trust and motivation while guiding people toward hope and practical improvement.
Mary lists 8 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
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LPC, LCMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | North Carolina |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Mary Jo commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness, and attachment-based ideas in her online work. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with small behavioral experiments to reduce anxiety or depression. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices that lower reactivity and help someone stay present during stressful moments. Attachment-based ideas look at patterns in close relationships and help people develop healthier ways of connecting and setting boundaries.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before, then try methods that fit each person's needs. That collaborative process makes it easier to adjust techniques over time until something feels helpful.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit many schedules. Video is useful for deeper conversational work and visual cues, phone can be a lower-bandwidth option, and chat or text lets people check in between sessions or use brief coaching-style support. These formats make therapy more flexible for busy lives while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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