About Mary
Dr. Mary Walker is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas who helps people facing phobias, anxiety, grief, and life transitions. She supports people dealing with eating and sleeping problems, addictions, bipolar concerns, ADHD, and LGBTQ-related issues.
Her style is down-to-earth and hopeful, focused on practical steps and steady progress. She spent years as a high school art teacher and later served as a mentor in church settings. Those roles shaped her respect for personal stories and for small, steady changes that add up.
Background and approach
Over a decade in counseling has deepened her interest in trauma, dissociation, and the long-term effects of childhood abuse. Her academic path includes a Master’s in counseling from Houston Graduate School of Theology and a Ph.D. from Texas A&M Corpus Christi. She lists experience working with grieving people, survivors of abuse, and those struggling with workplace and relationship stress.
She aims to meet each person where they are and move at a realistic pace. In sessions she draws on client-centered methods alongside cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior approaches. She uses mindfulness and narrative ideas to help people name patterns, test small changes, and build new skills.
The tone is gentle and practical rather than clinical. She frames counseling as a collaborative journey. People who work with her often focus on concrete goals like improving sleep, reducing panic around specific situations, managing mood swings, or coping with loss.
Progress is treated as steady steps rather than quick fixes.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on respect and listening. It helps people feel heard and clarifies their own goals before deciding on next steps. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and teaches concrete strategies for changing unhelpful patterns; it is useful for phobias, anxiety, and sleep problems.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk through options and test what fits best based on the person’s needs, goals, and comfort. That collaborative process can include mixing skills from different approaches as needed.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which allow flexibility for different days and routines. Video sessions suit longer conversations and skills practice, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and messaging lets someone check in between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- 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)
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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