About Mary
Mary Marks welcomes adults who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or worn down by life changes. She speaks English and Spanish and aims to make talking about hard things straightforward and practical. Mary is an LCSW who draws on 14 years of clinical experience to help people regain balance and find clearer ways forward.
She focuses on everyday stresses such as anxiety, sleep trouble, depression, and substance concerns. She also supports people facing relationship strain, grief, trauma, body image worries, and issues tied to identity and intimacy.
Background and approach
Mary works with common life transitions and persistent challenges like chronic pain, fertility concerns, or caregiving for an aging relative. In sessions she mixes concrete skills with listening and reflection. She uses approaches like cognitive behavioral techniques and acceptance strategies to reduce distress.
Attachment-informed work and client-centered conversation help address relationship patterns and what matters most to each person. Mary combines practical tools - for example stress management, mindfulness, and changing unhelpful self-talk - with gentle exploration of underlying feelings. She also offers education about medications when that is part of someone’s care plan.
Her style is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. People often come to her to process loss, trauma, or complicated life events. She aims to help clients learn coping skills, clarify values, and rebuild trust in themselves as they move forward.
Approach and online therapy options that fit your life
Mary uses cognitive behavioral ideas to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors that ease symptoms. CBT is a hands-on approach that often helps with anxiety, insomnia, and mood concerns. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on values and learning to accept difficult feelings while still moving toward a meaningful life, which can help with chronic stress and ongoing worry. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current connections and can be useful for improving communication and closeness.Choosing the right approach is a process Mary undertakes with each person. She listens to your goals and preferences, then recommends a mix of methods tailored to your situation. The work is collaborative and may shift over time as needs change.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls are good for in-depth conversations and visual cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, and text or chat can suit brief check-ins or people who prefer not to be on camera. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep consistent contact with a licensed professional.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- New York, Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish