About Mary
Mary Huckaby is a licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of practice. She focuses on adults and helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship pain, and the effects of trauma and abuse. Her style is practical and direct, aimed at making daily life feel more manageable.
Mary draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques chosen to match each person's needs. She pays attention to attachment and abandonment concerns, and to issues that shape self-worth such as body image, guilt, and shame.
Background and approach
Sessions often include clear steps to reduce panic, manage mood swings, and ease overwhelming stress. Communication and problem-solving are regular parts of her work. Mary helps people untangle control issues, improve how they set boundaries, and handle caregiving strain.
She also supports those navigating divorce, separation, or midlife transitions with straightforward guidance and tools. Her experience covers complex reactions after trauma, including post-traumatic stress, and practical methods to lower panic attacks and intense anxiety. She combines short-term coping strategies with longer-term work on life purpose and isolation or loneliness.
Mary practices in Missouri as an LCSW and sees adults 18 and older. She offers multiple session formats to fit different schedules and preferences, and she aims to help people find steps they can use between sessions to feel steadier.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Many people find benefit from focused, evidence-based techniques that address symptoms and daily functioning. One approach often used helps people identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns to reduce anxiety and depression symptoms; it is practical and teaches clear skills to use between sessions. Another approach targets the body and mind connection when trauma or panic is present, using grounding and breathing strategies alongside gradual exposure to reduce intense reactions.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit work, caregiving, or travel schedules. Video gives face-to-face conversation, phone can work when bandwidth is low, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports quick reflections between sessions. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English