About Mary
Mary Redding is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on practical, down-to-earth help for people facing family and personal problems. She draws on 36 years of experience in Mississippi to guide clients through stress, anxiety, grief, relationship strain, and life transitions. Mary uses straightforward conversation and clear tools so people can feel less stuck and more able to cope.
Her work pays close attention to family dynamics and parenting challenges.
Background and approach
She helps people sort communication problems, blended family issues, and caregiver stress. Mary also addresses addiction, anger, and codependency with a steady, nonjudgmental approach. She adapts techniques from several well-known approaches to match a person’s needs.
That can mean learning new thinking habits, practicing emotion skills, or focusing on values that matter most. The aim is practical change that fits everyday life rather than abstract theory. Mary also supports people dealing with loss, trauma, career strain, and compassion fatigue.
She will help clients build coping strategies for moments of crisis and for longer recovery periods. Her background includes work with adoption and foster care concerns, attachment issues, and aging or caregiver challenges. Sessions are meant to be collaborative and paced to each person’s readiness.
Mary explains options plainly and helps set realistic goals. Many people come for short-term coaching while others choose ongoing therapy to work through deeper patterns.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Mary commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting controlled by them, and then take steps that match their values. This approach is useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions.She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationships shape current connections. That work can help with communication problems, trust issues, and some relationship wounds.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they may try a few techniques and then focus on the ones that fit best.
Online therapy offers flexibility to fit sessions into busy lives. Video calls support in-depth conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a quicker check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief check-ins, written reflection, and support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to get consistent help while balancing work, family, or caregiving responsibilities.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 36 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English