About Mary
Mary Sanders is a licensed clinical social worker with more than three decades of experience. She meets people where they are and helps them work toward clearer goals. Her style is direct and relational, focused on practical steps rather than jargon.
She speaks English and sees clients from Georgia and beyond, including international clients. Mary uses a conversational approach to uncover strengths and obstacles. She helps people identify what gets in the way and what already helps them cope.
Background and approach
Sessions often include learning simple communication skills and coping strategies that can be used right away. Her background includes long experience with addiction and mental health concerns, and she has worked extensively around relationship and family issues. She brings 36 years of practice as an LCSW, with credentials listed as GA LCSW CSW002262 and UT LCSW 12960316-3501.
People come to her for many concerns, including stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and problems with intimacy or self-esteem. She also supports those facing caregiving strain, blended family challenges, cancer-related stress, and relationship breakdowns. Mary pays attention to both emotions and practical changes needed in daily life.
Therapy with Mary is a shared process. She aims to empower clients to use their own strengths while teaching tools for clearer communication and healthier coping. She values time and encourages focus on the changes that matter most.
To begin, she asks clients to set goals and be willing to try steps between sessions.
Remote relational care and practical tools
Mary uses Client-Centered Therapy to focus on each person’s experience and priorities. This approach centers the conversation on what matters to the client and helps build momentum toward achievable goals.She also draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people and partners notice and change interaction patterns that keep them stuck. That work is useful for repair after conflict and for deepening emotional connection.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. Mary will talk with clients about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they try methods and adjust the plan as needed so therapy matches real life and real constraints.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging work for brief check-ins and ongoing support. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy schedules, handle follow-ups between meetings, and keep continuity when travel or relocation happens.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 36 years
- Licensed
- Georgia, Utah
- Languages
- English