About Mary
Mary Dellinger is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in South Carolina who emphasizes gentle, practical work. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and related concerns like ADHD, sleep problems, and addictions. Her voice is calm and straightforward in sessions.
She aims to make therapy understandable and doable for busy people. Mary blends client-centered listening with clear, goal-focused tools. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and try out new behaviors.
Background and approach
She also draws on mindfulness to teach simple ways to slow down and steady difficult moments. Sessions begin with a short conversation about what matters most right now. From there, Mary and the client pick a few concrete steps to try between meetings.
She checks progress and adjusts the plan, keeping goals short-term and realistic when needed. Mary has worked in counseling for ten years and brings that practical experience to everyday problems like relationship strain, career stress, parenting challenges, and grief. She also supports people facing deeper issues such as trauma, attachment wounds, and mood disorders.
Her work is meant to help people feel more capable and less overwhelmed. People meet her for video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. She offers straightforward talk and hands-on tools, with an emphasis on building small, sustainable changes over time.
How her approaches work online
Mary uses client-centered methods that prioritize listening and understanding. This approach makes room for each person’s story and helps set goals that feel important and realistic. It tends to be helpful for people wrestling with stress, relationship strain, or life changes.She also applies Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. CBT helps with anxiety, sleep problems, low mood, and many everyday struggles by teaching clear steps you can practice between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Mary will talk through different options and decide with the client which methods to try based on needs, goals, and personal preference. That collaborative process can change over time as the client notices what helps.
Offering video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging makes it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone can be a simpler check-in, live chat suits quick reflections, and messaging supports short, ongoing contact. These options give flexibility for scheduling, communication style, and comfort while working on concerns like anxiety, grief, or behavior change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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