About Mary
Mary Allen is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with more than three decades of practice. She brings a direct and warm presence to sessions and focuses on clear goals that clients set together. Mary speaks plainly and helps people make steady, practical progress.
Her work draws on attachment-based ideas and cognitive behavioral techniques to address stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She also helps with relationship concerns, intimacy-related issues, and self-esteem struggles.
Background and approach
People dealing with grief, parenting strain, compassion fatigue, or life transitions find her practical style useful. Mary’s experience also covers ADHD, anger, career questions, and challenges tied to adoption, aging, or caregiver stress. She listens for patterns from early relationships and current life demands, then helps clients try different ways of responding.
Sessions aim to connect feelings to daily actions and small changes that make life more manageable. Sessions are collaborative and interactive. Mary uses client-centered conversations to clarify goals, then adds techniques from cognitive behavioral and emotionally-focused work as needed.
Mindfulness exercises and narrative approaches are available when they fit the client’s needs. Clients can expect straightforward feedback and tools to practice between sessions. Mary holds an LCSW and has practiced for 31 years, working with a wide range of concerns.
She offers therapy in English and provides several online formats for meeting that aim to fit busy schedules.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape present feelings and reactions. In online sessions this can help clarify why certain situations trigger strong responses and guide small changes in how someone connects with others. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person’s own goals and pace. The therapist listens with curiosity and follows the client’s lead, which helps when someone needs space to tell their story or choose which issues to tackle first.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Mary will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit best. Together they set goals, try approaches, and adjust based on what feels helpful and practical for the client’s life and preferences.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation similar to an office visit. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for people who prefer written reflection, want quick coping reminders, or need flexible check-ins between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or daily routines while using approaches that focus on relationships, thinking patterns, and present feelings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- 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
- 31 years
- Licensed
- California, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Nevada
- Languages
- English