About Mary
Mary Jo Greenwood is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 21 years of experience. She practices from Wyoming and focuses on helping people facing depression, anxiety, trauma, and relationship struggles. Mary Jo brings a calm, down-to-earth style to sessions and aims to make therapy feel manageable and practical.
She uses a mix of approaches that fit each person’s needs. That can mean working on thought patterns with practical exercises, building stronger attachment and communication skills, or learning tools to manage intense emotions.
Background and approach
Sessions often include clear steps to try between meetings so progress feels concrete. Her background includes work across many settings - psychiatric inpatient care, group homes, crisis centers, outpatient counseling, and child welfare. That variety informs how she assesses risk, safety, and day-to-day coping.
She also has experience supporting people affected by adoption and foster care, attachment issues, and parenting stress. Mary Jo has worked with people facing addiction, grief, chronic illness, and career or life transitions. She is familiar with military culture and the VA disability process through personal connections and professional contacts.
She aims to consider the whole person rather than focus only on symptoms. In online work she has guided clients from messaging to phone and video as comfort grows. She helps people shape treatment plans that adapt over time.
If someone prefers starting with short messages or a phone check-in, she supports that and moves at the client’s pace.
How Mary Jo’s Approaches Work Online
Mary Jo draws on client-centered therapy to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space where a person sets goals and pace. That approach focuses on listening, reflecting concerns back, and building plans that feel doable for daily life.She also uses elements of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. CBT offers practical exercises to try between sessions, which can help with anxiety, low mood, sleep issues, and unhelpful thinking patterns.
Deciding which approach fits best is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk about what matters to the client, try techniques, and adjust the plan as needs change. Clients often start with one format or method and shift as they grow more comfortable.
Online formats let people engage in ways that fit their schedule and energy. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and deeper interaction. Phone sessions work well for a shorter check-in or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging can be useful for quick check-ins, daily coaching, or for people who prefer typing before speaking. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to keep up with day-to-day life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Wyoming, Nevada
- Languages
- English