About Mary
Mary Stone is a licensed clinical social worker in New York with 11 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are coping with trauma and abuse, career stress, compassion fatigue, and attention difficulties such as ADHD. She meets clients where they are and centers their own strengths when planning next steps.
Her approach is straightforward and practical. She uses client-centered work to build trust and dial back overwhelm.
Background and approach
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills are used to manage intense emotions and improve day-to-day coping. EMDR is offered as a way to process traumatic memories when appropriate. Mary also draws on narrative and motivational interviewing techniques.
Narrative work helps people reframe personal stories and see different possibilities. Motivational interviewing supports decisions about change and helps clients find their own reasons to move forward. She has assisted people dealing with workplace stress and personality-related struggles.
Immigration and multicultural concerns are part of her practice, and she brings awareness to cultural context during sessions. Mary helps people sort practical steps for career problems and workplace conflict. Sessions are offered in English and Mary accepts international clients.
She provides a mix of formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is used to connect people and schedule sessions according to availability.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the clients lead. The therapist reflects what matters most to the person and helps them set goals that feel relevant and realistic. This approach suits people who want a supportive space to sort their priorities and make steady changes.Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches concrete skills for managing strong emotions, tolerating distress, and improving relationships. These skills are useful for people who feel overwhelmed by emotions or who want tools to handle intense situations day to day. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, offers a method to process traumatic memories that can reduce their emotional charge when used appropriately with a therapist.
Deciding which approach fits best is part of the work. Mary will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. She adjusts the pace and mixes approaches as progress and preferences become clear.
Online therapy makes these methods more accessible through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face connection and skill coaching. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be a good option for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text are handy for brief reflections, ongoing support, or when writing feels easier than speaking. Together these options offer flexibility to fit sessions into busy schedules and varied day-to-day needs.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Trauma and abuse
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
Also works with
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Immigration issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Personality disorders
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English