About Mary
Mary Meehan is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Missouri with 27 years of experience helping people manage anxiety, stress, grief, and relationship struggles. She works with adults who are wrestling with parenting pressures, self-esteem concerns, trauma and abuse, mood changes, or big life transitions. Her manner is warm and straightforward, aimed at making therapy feel useful and understandable.
In sessions she focuses on listening first and then building practical skills together.
Background and approach
She uses client-centered work to follow what matters most to each person. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools are used to spot unhelpful thoughts and try different responses. Mary also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy ideas when emotions feel overwhelming, and Emotionally-Focused Therapy techniques to help people improve close relationships.
Narrative Therapy is part of her toolbox for people who want to reframe difficult life stories and move forward with more agency. She helps people create short-term plans and long-term coping strategies. Common concerns she addresses include depression, bipolar mood issues, ADHD, career stress, eating concerns, anger, and coping with chronic illness.
Mary integrates coaching-style guidance when clients want practical steps toward specific goals. Mary offers sessions in English and accepts international clients. She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and lifestyles.
Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling based on availability.
Approaches for online care and how they help
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and creating a respectful space where the client's priorities guide the work. It helps when someone wants a therapist who follows their pace and values their perspective. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches clear tools to change patterns that cause stress or anxiety. This approach is often useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life shifts. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, adds skills for managing intense emotions and improving emotional regulation when reactions feel overwhelming.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people work face-to-face from different locations. Phone sessions can fit into a work break or be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging support shorter check-ins, ongoing coaching-style guidance, and quick tools between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around busy schedules and changing needs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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