About Mary
Mary McLaggan is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 20 years of experience. She offers calm, direct support for people facing anxiety, stress, depression, ADHD, grief, and relationship concerns. Her tone is warm and respectful while keeping things straightforward so worried parents and busy adults can follow along.
Mary adapts conversations and care to each person. She listens first, then helps set simple goals to reduce symptoms and improve daily life.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical skills and real-life steps you can try between meetings. Her work often centers on attachment issues, self-esteem, coping with life changes, and intimacy-related challenges. She also addresses sleep problems, career stress, burnout and compassion fatigue, and complex concerns like co-morbidity or adoption and foster care stress.
Mary draws on multiple methods to meet different needs rather than a single fixed approach. She uses client-centered work to make space for each person’s story and CBT to identify and shift unhelpful thinking patterns. Dialectical behavior therapy tools are used when emotional regulation and distress tolerance are priorities.
Mary offers services in English and Spanish and practices from Iowa. She emphasizes collaboration and small, practical steps that fit into busy lives. Starting therapy can feel hard, and she aims to make the process understandable and manageable.
Approaches that translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current bonds and trust. Online sessions use conversations to notice patterns in close relationships and practice new ways of connecting and setting boundaries.Client-Centered Therapy puts the person’s experience at the center of each session. The therapist follows your lead, reflecting what matters most to you and helping you make decisions that fit your life.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that keep problems going. In online work this often means setting simple exercises between sessions and reviewing progress over video or messaging.
Choosing the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will work together with you to decide what methods match your needs, goals, and preferences, and will adjust the plan as you move forward.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared worksheets. Phone sessions can fit into a short break when video isn’t possible. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to check in between sessions or to use brief, focused support during busy days.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Iowa
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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