About Mary
Mary Ann Godefroy is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) and a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in California. She works with adults who are struggling with anxiety, stress, addiction, depression, relationship difficulties, and life changes. Her approach is practical and direct, aimed at helping people find clearer ways to cope and move forward.
She draws on years of clinical work to offer steady support during hard times. Sessions focus on immediate problems and on building skills for daily life.
Background and approach
Mary Ann blends different methods to match what each person needs rather than using one fixed style. Her toolkit includes talking through patterns of thought and behavior, strengthening coping skills, and attending to how relationships affect mood and choices. She also uses mindfulness practices to help with emotional regulation and to reduce overwhelming symptoms.
This mix helps people manage stress, grief, and the ups and downs of mood disorders. Over 14 years she has supported adults facing trauma, addiction, ADHD, and career or family stress. She emphasizes collaboration and clear goals so progress feels concrete.
Her style is warm and focused on practical steps that people can use between sessions. Mary Ann offers therapy that aims to improve day-to-day functioning and self-understanding. People who want straightforward help with anxiety, phobias, coping skills, or substance concerns may find her approach useful.
She works with each person to set realistic goals and to track change over time.
Approach-driven care delivered online
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early and current relationships shape feelings and behavior; it helps people understand patterns in close relationships and how those patterns affect stress and self-worth. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a nonjudgmental, listening stance where the therapist follows the person's pace and priorities to support self-directed growth. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful thinking and behavior.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences, then use techniques from these approaches to create a tailored plan. This is a collaborative process where the person and therapist check progress and adjust methods over time.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and teaching skills, phone sessions can fit a break during the day or require less bandwidth, live chat allows quick check-ins, and text messaging supports brief updates or reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to keep consistent contact and to use therapy in ways that fit a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- California, New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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