About Mary
Mary Landers is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on practical, evidence-based care for people feeling overwhelmed by stress and anxiety. She provides straightforward support for depression, grief, trauma and LGBT-related concerns. Mary writes and speaks plainly so people can understand options and next steps.
Mary has worked in the field for 12 years and holds a Texas LCSW license. Her background includes helping people who deal with loss, abusive pasts, and ongoing worry.
Background and approach
She also addresses related concerns such as attachment struggles, body image, caregiving strain, chronic illness, and communication problems. Sessions with Mary center on clear goals and steady progress. She aims to make the room a place where thoughts and feelings can be named without judgment.
Practical tools and coping strategies are offered alongside space to process painful experiences. Mary is comfortable addressing more complex or overlapping issues such as codependency, commitment anxiety, and co-morbid health and mood concerns. She also supports people navigating topics often left out of standard care, including kink and alternative sex culture, autism-related needs, and aging or cancer-related stress.
Her approach combines listening with concrete steps clients can use between sessions. The focus is on building skills, reducing daily distress, and helping people move toward a life that feels more manageable and meaningful.
Evidence-based approaches and online options
Mary works with evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on what helps most in day-to-day life. One common approach uses structured skills and practice to reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression by teaching breathing, thought tracking, and activity planning to interrupt negative patterns.Another approach centers on processing difficult events and loss so they feel less overwhelming. This involves guided conversations and exercises that help make sense of traumatic memories or grief and reduce their hold on daily routines.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist and client review goals, preferences, and how symptoms show up, then try methods that fit those needs. Adjustments are made as progress is tracked so the plan stays useful and relevant.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care flexible and accessible. Video lets people connect face to face; phone calls work when bandwidth is limited or a hands-free option is needed. Live chat and text sessions are helpful for quick check-ins, written reflection, or when someone prefers typing over speaking. These options make it easier to arrange appointments around work, caregiving, or health constraints.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English