About Mary
Mary Skinner is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with ten years of experience supporting adults through anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction, and major life transitions. She helps people facing relationship strain, grief, parenting stress, career challenges, and questions about identity and intimacy. Her style is warm and collaborative, with a straightforward focus on practical steps that fit into everyday life.
She uses a mix of approaches to match each person’s needs.
How Mary works
That can mean using cognitive-behavioral techniques to notice and change unhelpful thinking. It can mean leaning on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and build committed action. Mary also brings a person-centered stance that emphasizes listening and understanding before suggesting next steps.
In sessions she aims for clear goals and simple, usable tools. People leave with small experiments to try between meetings, like different ways to handle conflict, manage sleep, or reduce stress. She encourages curiosity and, when helpful, reflection on deeper themes such as meaning and identity.
Her background draws on humanistic influences and Jungian ideas about symbolism and personal growth. Mary emphasizes reducing shame and stigma while building practical skills. She combines clinical ideas with everyday language so people can try new behaviors without getting stuck on labels.
Mary practices in Florida and provides care in English. She works with adults to address a broad range of concerns including mood disorders, addiction, caregiving stress, and identity-related matters.
Mary lists 9 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.
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Mary commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which asks people to clarify what matters to them and then take small, consistent steps toward those values. ACT can help with anxiety, depression, addiction, and coping with life changes by focusing on committed action rather than getting stuck on difficult thoughts.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try different behaviors. CBT offers practical exercises for mood, sleep, anger, and stress management that people can practice between sessions.
Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and daily life, then adapt methods as needed. That means sessions can mix listening, skills practice, values work, and reflection depending on what helps most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people use visual cues for deeper conversation, while phone sessions work well for shorter check-ins or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging can support brief coaching-style check-ins, homework review, and ongoing encouragement between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum between sessions.
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