About Mary
Mary "Christine" Lawson is a Licensed Professional Counselor - Mental Health Service Provider (LPC-MHSP) based in Tennessee. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, trauma, and related concerns. Her manner is calm and straightforward, aimed at making the first steps easier for someone who is worried or unsure about therapy.
Christine draws on practical methods that help people manage distress and build coping skills.
Background and approach
She uses approaches like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to break problems into manageable parts. Motivational Interviewing and Solution-Focused Therapy shape brief, goal-oriented conversations when people need direction and momentum. With seven years of experience, Christine blends structured techniques with attentive listening.
Sessions typically include clear goals, simple homework between meetings, and regular check-ins on progress. She adapts plans to match each person's life, pace, and priorities. She also addresses relationship strain, parenting stress, grief, sleep and eating problems, addiction concerns, and workplace burnout.
Additional focuses include attachment wounds, abandonment fears, chronic illness, caregiver stress, and family of origin issues. These topics often overlap, and Christine helps people untangle what matters most in day-to-day life. Sessions are offered in English and French and are available via video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire followed by scheduling a session according to therapist availability.
Approaches that translate well to online sessions
Christine often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and test small behavior changes. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep and eating problems, and many day-to-day struggles. She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness when strong emotions make life harder.These methods are presented in a collaborative way. Christine will work with each person to pick approaches that fit their goals and life situation. Together they review what helps, adjust techniques, and set clear, short-term goals so progress is visible and practical.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule. Video sessions let people practice skills in real time and use screen-shared worksheets. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, coaching between sessions, or when a shorter, more frequent contact is helpful.
These options aim to make consistent work possible while keeping therapy focused on concrete skills and steps forward.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English, French
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