About Mary
Mary Meehan is a licensed professional counselor with 27 years of experience helping people handle stress, anxiety, grief, parenting challenges, and problems with self-esteem. She works directly with adults who are navigating depression, bipolar symptoms, trauma and abuse, eating concerns, anger, and career stress. Mary aims to make therapy understandable and practical for people juggling real life demands.
Her sessions focus on clear goals and steady progress. She uses conversation to help clients make sense of feelings and habits.
How Mary works
Together they build skills for day-to-day coping and tools to manage strong emotions. Mary draws on several approaches to fit each person’s needs. She blends Client-Centered listening with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) strategies and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills when useful.
Narrative Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) ideas are also part of her work when exploring personal stories and relationships. Her practice covers many related concerns such as abandonment, attachment issues, blended family stress, caregiver strain, chronic illness and pain, and communication problems. She also supports people dealing with adoption and foster care experiences, cancer-related challenges, and co-morbid mental health issues.
Mary practices in Missouri and offers sessions in English. She approaches each person with respect and a steady focus on what will help them function better day to day. Therapy sessions aim to be collaborative, practical, and tailored to the person’s goals.
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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
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 27 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Missouri |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's experience. The therapist provides empathy and reflection, helping people feel heard and guiding them toward their own solutions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete strategies to change unhelpful patterns. CBT can help with anxiety, depression, and stress by building practical coping skills.Mary will work with clients to choose which approach fits best. That choice is a collaborative process based on the person's goals, history, and what feels most useful in early sessions. She may blend elements from different approaches as needs evolve and progress is tracked together.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be a better fit when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people fit brief check-ins into busy days or keep a therapeutic thread between sessions. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care while fitting sessions into work, school, caregiving, or travel schedules.
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