About Mary
Mary Radaker is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Pennsylvania with 18 years of experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, and depression. Mary aims to make the first step easier for someone who feels overwhelmed or stuck.
Mary keeps the therapy space open and approachable. She invites people to talk about painful memories, overwhelming moods, or behaviors that cause trouble. Sessions are straightforward and aimed at helping clients notice patterns and try different ways of coping.
Background and approach
Her work uses common-sense tools from several approaches. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people test thoughts and change unhelpful behaviors. Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers skills for emotion regulation and tolerating distress.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is used when painful memories keep showing up in daily life. Mary also pays attention to everyday pressures like body image, relationship strain, loneliness, and life purpose. She helps people sort through guilt, shame, impulsivity, and difficulties after separation or infidelity.
Clients who struggle with obsessions, panic attacks, or phobias can find practical steps to try in therapy. Sessions aim to be collaborative. Mary works with each person to set clear, realistic goals and to track small changes.
Her style is calm, direct, and focused on what will help in daily life.
How Mary’s Approaches Translate to Online Therapy
Client-Centered Therapy centers the person in the room and focuses on listening, empathy, and meeting people where they are; online sessions give space for that same collaborative conversation and reflective listening. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps by identifying unhelpful thoughts and practicing new behaviors, which works well through video or phone check-ins and short written homework between sessions. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) addresses disturbing memories that keep causing distress, and elements of this approach can be adapted to work in remote sessions when appropriate.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before to find the best fit. That collaborative process can shift over time as needs change and new strategies are tried.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people see facial cues and do structured exercises. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, skill practice, and follow-up between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into workdays, caregiving schedules, or irregular routines while keeping the focus on making steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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