About Mary
Mary Redding uses practical, evidence-informed approaches to help people manage stress and emotional strain. She is an LCSW - a licensed clinical social worker - with 36 years of experience in Mississippi. Mary speaks plain, direct language and focuses on making therapy feel manageable for busy lives.
Mary helps people sort through family stress and parenting challenges. She also addresses anger, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, and workplace concerns. Many clients come for help with communication problems, self-esteem, or major life changes.
How Mary works
Her practice mixes talk and skills. Sessions may include exploring patterns from early relationships, learning tools to change unhelpful thoughts, and practicing new ways to manage strong emotions. She adjusts the pace and focus to match each person's goals and temperament.
Mary also supports people facing issues such as abandonment, adoption and foster care concerns, caregiver stress, blended family dynamics, and attachment questions. She works with people dealing with divorce, domestic violence histories, or family-of-origin problems. When practical solutions are needed, Mary offers coaching-style strategies alongside therapeutic work.
She helps people set short-term goals, try different behaviors, and track progress. Her aim is to make therapy useful and relevant to daily life.
Mary lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
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.
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 36 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Mississippi |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters most to them and take small steps toward those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and making life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills to notice and change thinking patterns and behaviors that keep problems going. It often helps with anxiety, stress, and mood challenges. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect present-day connections and supports building more supported ways of relating.Choosing the right approach is part of therapy. Mary will work collaboratively to figure out which methods fit a person’s needs and goals. Together they set priorities, try approaches, and adjust what they do based on what helps in real life.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video lets people use visual cues and typical session rhythm, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, chat can be a brief check-in, and messaging supports ongoing adjustments between visits. These options help therapy fit into work, school, caregiving, and other routines.
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