About Mary
Mary Hamm is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who supports people feeling overwhelmed, anxious, burned out, or weighed down by depression. She works with individuals facing parenting stress, postpartum challenges, major life changes, and struggles to feel joy. Her tone is direct and practical, focused on helping clients take small, useful steps forward.
Mary uses several evidence-informed approaches and adapts them to each person’s needs. She draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to help change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
Background and approach
Mindfulness-based methods are used to build present-moment awareness and reduce reactivity. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy shows up in sessions as values-based work and actions that match what matters most to the client. Motivational interviewing helps when people are unsure about change and need to find their own reasons to move forward.
Sessions are client-driven and paced to fit current energy and capacity. With 16 years of experience, Mary has supported people with anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, ADHD, addictions, and mood disorders. She also focuses on grief, compassion fatigue, eating and sleeping issues, career concerns, and questions about identity and intimacy.
Her practice includes attention to adoption and foster care, aging issues, autism, and caregiver stress. Mary offers a welcoming, nonjudgmental space and practical skills work. She helps clients reconnect with resilience and build routines that support day-to-day living.
People who want steady, down-to-earth guidance may find her approach useful.
Using practical approaches in online sessions
Mary often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot and change thinking and behavior that keep problems going. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, panic, and mood regulation because it focuses on specific, testable changes in daily life. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is another frequent approach and emphasizes clarifying values and taking small actions that reflect what matters most. It helps with feeling stuck, coping with life changes, and building motivation.Mindfulness methods are woven into many sessions to teach simple attention and breath practices. These help reduce reactivity, improve sleep, and create calmer moments in a busy day. Choosing which approaches to use is a collaborative process - the therapist and client discuss goals, try methods, and adjust what isn’t working. Mary aims to match techniques to each person’s preferences and energy level rather than following a fixed plan.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls make it possible to meet face to face when schedules are tight. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is low or a camera isn’t convenient. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or when writing feels easier than talking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, parenting, or other life demands while using the therapeutic approaches described above.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English