About Mary
Mary Marsh is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, and depression. She connects with people who are facing life changes and who want practical ways to feel steadier day to day. Mary brings a calm, respectful approach and aims to make the first steps toward change feel manageable.
Mary holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential, with 7 years of professional experience across North Carolina and Virginia.
Background and approach
She adapts conversations and plans to fit what each person needs rather than using one fixed method. Sessions are grounded in clear goals and doable steps you can try between meetings. Her work often includes practical strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy to help with anxious thoughts and mood.
She also uses client-centered listening to understand what matters most to each person. Mindfulness practices are offered for people who want tools for stress and moment-to-moment coping. Mary has supported people dealing with long-term health concerns, caregiving stress, grief and hospice matters, and the emotional impact of chronic pain or illness.
She also brings experience with substance-related challenges, mood and personality difficulties, panic, and concerns common among veterans and armed forces populations. Mary aims to make progress feel realistic. She helps set concrete goals, track small changes, and adjust plans when something isn’t working.
The tone in sessions is respectful, down-to-earth, and focused on what will help in daily life.
How Mary’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding your experience. The therapist follows your lead, reflects what matters, and helps you set goals that feel right. This approach is useful when you want someone to make space for your story and priorities.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. It breaks problems into small steps and teaches practical techniques to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. CBT can help with anxiety, panic, depression, and stress by giving clear exercises to practice between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Mary will talk with you about your needs, goals, and preferences and suggest methods that fit. The plan can shift over time if a different approach would work better for you.
Online sessions offer flexibility for busy lives. Video calls let you keep visual contact when that feels helpful. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier when you need a quieter check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter or more frequent touchpoints between meetings. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or treatment schedules while staying focused on real change.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina, Virginia
- Languages
- English
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