About Mary
Mary Newbauer is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing grief, stress, anxiety, depression, and major life changes. She works with individuals struggling with relationships, addictions, self-esteem, career concerns, aging, and end-of-life issues. Her tone is calm and practical, aimed at offering steady support during painful transitions.
Mary brings 27 years of experience supporting people through loss and change. She spent much of her career working with patients and families at the end of life.
Background and approach
That background shaped her focus on compassion, active listening, and helping people find meaning after loss. In sessions she centers the person’s needs and priorities. She uses client-centered conversation to clarify what matters most.
She also draws on solution-focused tools to set small, achievable steps toward change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy ideas are used to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new patterns. Mindfulness practices are offered to reduce stress and increase presence.
Mary blends these approaches with a thoughtful, experience-based perspective rather than relying on any single method. Her style is straightforward and respectful. She aims to create a space where someone can talk, feel heard, and begin to rebuild.
Mary works from Wisconsin and offers support for issues like caregiver stress, cancer-related concerns, midlife shifts, and developing self-love.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person talking about what matters to them. The therapist listens closely and reflects back what is important so clients can find their own solutions and direction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people spot unhelpful thinking patterns and try new behaviors to reduce anxiety or low mood. It is practical and often uses small experiments between sessions. Jungian ideas and psychodynamic thinking pay attention to personal history and deeper themes that shape how someone responds to loss and change.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that fit the person’s needs, and adjust as progress is made. This collaborative process helps identify what feels most helpful over time rather than prescribing one fixed path.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when schedules or travel make in-person meetings hard. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a quicker check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow short, ongoing contact and can make it easier to follow up between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum during difficult periods.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Self esteem
- Self-love
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English