About Mary
Mary Norwood is a licensed independent clinical social worker with 13 years of experience offering therapy in Alabama. She uses a warm, down-to-earth style to help people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, or big life changes. She centers sessions on what matters most to each person.
That means listening first, then building practical steps together. She combines a strengths-based focus with cognitive-behavioral ideas to address upsetting thoughts and behaviors.
How Mary works
Mary helps people manage relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, trauma and abuse, and parenting challenges. She also supports those dealing with workplace stress, career decisions, isolation or loneliness, and issues tied to identity such as LGBT-related concerns. Her approach is flexible and solution-minded.
Sessions often include concrete tools to try between meetings and short-term goals to measure progress. She adapts the pace to each person's needs and comfort level. Mary has worked with a wide variety of life issues over more than a decade in practice.
She focuses on practical change and on strengthening personal resources so people feel more capable handling day-to-day problems. If someone wants clear steps and steady support, she aims to provide both.
Mary lists 3 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
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LICSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 13 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Alabama |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approaches that guide online care
Mary uses client-centered therapy to place the person's goals and preferences at the center of each session. That approach focuses on listening closely, reflecting what matters most, and helping people find their own solutions for stress, relationships, and identity concerns.She also applies cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect. CBT provides practical exercises and strategies to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change unhelpful habits.
Finding the right method is part of the work. Mary will collaborate with each person to decide which approach, or mix of approaches, fits their needs and goals. Together they set short-term objectives and adjust methods based on progress and preference.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction, phone sessions can be easier when video is not possible, live chat lets someone have a focused conversation without audio, and text-based messaging supports brief check-ins or reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to use tools that suit different situations and comforts.
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