About Mary
Mary Allen is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with over 31 years of experience. She uses straightforward, collaborative care to help people facing anxiety, depression, stress, relationship strain, and phobias. Her manner is direct and warm, with an emphasis on practical steps parents and adults can use right away.
Mary combines several therapy styles to match what each person needs. She asks about goals and daily challenges, then helps create short-term tasks and longer-term plans.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear communication, coping skills, and rebuilding confidence after trauma or loss. Her work often addresses relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, grief, and caregiver stress. Mary also supports people navigating career stress, identity concerns including LGBT issues, and chronic health or pain-related challenges.
She frames problems in everyday terms so solutions feel usable. Expect an interactive approach where the client sets goals and progress is reviewed regularly. Mary draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
She also uses attachment-based ideas to improve closeness and emotionally-focused work to repair bonds. Mary practices from Wisconsin and conducts sessions in English. She offers multiple remote session formats so therapy can fit into busy schedules.
People who are ready to try a practical, relationship-minded approach will find a direct and caring clinician ready to listen.
Approach and Online Options for Therapy
Mary often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy in sessions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and can help with anxiety, phobias, and low mood. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people build safer, more connected ways of relating when intimacy or trust feels strained.Finding the right approach is a team effort. Mary works with each person to set goals and chooses methods that fit their needs and preferences. She will explain options, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what is helpful while keeping the client's goals central.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video calls let people work face to face without travel. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text work for quick check-ins, brief processing, or when written conversation feels easier. These options make it possible to keep regular contact and fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 31 years
- Licensed
- California, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Nevada
- Languages
- English
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