About Mary
Dr. Mary Weeden is a licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of experience who uses human-centered approaches to help people facing anxiety, depression, grief, and eating concerns. She aims to make sessions straightforward and understandable so families and individuals can focus on practical steps forward.
She draws on client-centered methods to create a calm space where people can say what they think and feel without judgment. That foundation helps people feel heard and begin to make small changes.
Background and approach
She also uses cognitive behavioral strategies to help identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors in everyday life. Her background includes prior work as a registered nurse, which adds familiarity with health-related and end-of-life issues. That experience informs her approach to hospice, caregiver stress, and aging concerns.
She treats questions about body image, eating and food-related issues, and mood disorders with attention to both physical and emotional needs. For people dealing with attachment or abandonment concerns, she brings approaches that focus on relating and rebuilding trust. She also helps clients who are struggling with communication problems, guilt, shame, and life changes like divorce or midlife transitions.
Sessions aim to be practical and compassionate so progress feels achievable. Dr. Weeden practices in Wisconsin as an LCSW, and she offers a range of online session formats to fit different schedules and needs.
She works collaboratively to set goals and adapt methods based on each person’s situation.
Therapeutic approaches that translate to online care
Attachment-based work focuses on how people connect with others and how past relationships shape current trust and closeness. Online sessions can use this approach to talk through relationship patterns and rehearse new ways of relating in daily life.Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening without judgment and following the person’s lead. In a virtual visit this means the therapist spends time reflecting what is said and helping set goals that feel realistic for each person.
Cognitive behavioral therapy targets the thoughts and behaviors that keep problems stuck. Over video or phone, clients and the therapist identify unhelpful thinking, test small behavior changes, and track results between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, pace, and comfort level. That decision gets revisited as progress is made so the plan evolves with needs.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break, and live chat or text-based messaging support quick check-ins or ongoing reflection. These formats make it easier to keep regular contact and try real-life changes between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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