About Mary
Mary Lee Palmer is a licensed clinical social worker in Georgia with more than four decades of practice. She uses a warm, interactive style and aims to create a straightforward space where people can talk about tough issues. She values respect, sensitivity, and a nonjudgmental attitude when working with each person.
Mary Lee draws on several practical approaches to help people make change. She blends client-centered work with cognitive-behavioral techniques and psychodynamic ideas.
Background and approach
Mindfulness and emotionally focused methods also appear in her work when they fit a person's needs. Her background includes work in psychiatric hospitals and independent practice. She has led parent groups, adolescent day programs, and family therapy while working on a child and adolescent unit.
She also served as Director of Child and Adolescent Services at a hospital in Atlanta, and has experience with people across the lifespan. Mary Lee has supported people facing depression, anxiety, trauma and abuse, bipolar disorder, grief, and addiction. She also helps with relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, career stress, and coping with life changes.
Additional focus areas listed include caregiving stress, chronic illness and pain, codependency, and communication problems. Sessions are shaped around each person's goals. She works collaboratively to make a plan that fits the individual.
If someone is ready to try therapy, she offers supportive guidance aimed at practical steps and clearer choices.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Client-centered work focuses on the person's own goals and values, with the therapist listening deeply and helping people find their own solutions. This approach helps people who want a supportive space to sort through feelings and make choices.Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts shape feelings and actions and teaches specific skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and stress management because it gives clear tools and homework to practice between sessions.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) concentrates on understanding and shifting emotional responses that affect relationships. It can help when people want to improve communication, rebuild trust, or address intimacy-related concerns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist and client will talk about goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust the plan together. This collaborative process helps pick the techniques that feel most useful and practical.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging are helpful for brief check-ins, ongoing support, or people who prefer written reflection. These options increase flexibility and make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives while still focusing on meaningful change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 41 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English