About Mary
Mary Ellen Cullity greets visitors with a straightforward focus on practical help. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with ten years of experience. Parents and people facing grief, anxiety, depression, or major life changes will find clear, calm guidance.
Sessions aim to surface what feels stuck and build steps toward change. Her work often centers on parenting young children and on relationships within families. She has background in maternal and child health, early intervention, and hospice care.
Background and approach
That experience informs how she supports people through loss and transitions. Mary Ellen uses a client-centered style that keeps each conversation focused on the person in front of her. She combines that with practical tools from cognitive behavioral techniques and solution-focused methods.
These help turn short-term goals into doable actions. Mindfulness practices and motivational interviewing also appear in her approach. Those methods are used to increase present-moment awareness and strengthen motivation for change.
The result is an approachable mix of listening and skill-building. She works with a wide range of concerns including trauma, parenting strain, anger, self-esteem, career questions, ADHD, and family of origin issues. People also bring issues like postpartum depression, abandonment, adoption and foster care, and caregiving for cancer to sessions.
Mary Ellen aims to help each person find realistic next steps and greater self-understanding.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and following the client's lead. Online sessions use that same approach so conversations start where the person is and move at their pace. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and uses simple exercises to change unhelpful patterns; online work often includes short between-session tasks to practice new skills.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they will try methods that match the client's needs and adjust them as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people use visual cues and more in-depth conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text are useful for quick reflections, ongoing support, or when someone prefers typed communication. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy lives.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New Hampshire
- Languages
- English