About Mary
Mary Taylor is a licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of experience in behavioral healthcare. She has worked in emergency rooms, inpatient hospitals, and outpatient treatment. She focuses on helping people find a way forward when life feels overwhelming or stuck.
Mary uses a relational style that pays attention to how the nervous system responds to stress. She draws on attachment, mindfulness, and somatic ideas to help people notice patterns and feel more settled.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and warm, with a steady emphasis on practical steps people can use day to day. In therapy she helps people learn how their past relationships shape current reactions. Mary also looks at how those patterns show up with partners, family members, and others.
That perspective can make it easier to change recurring cycles of anxiety, avoidance, or reactivity. Practical skill-building is part of the work. Clients practice tools to manage stress, panic, and mood shifts.
The focus is on small, usable changes that add up over time. An initial consultation is offered to see if the approach fits your needs and goals. Mary aims to create a steady, compassionate space where people can feel less overwhelmed and more capable of moving forward.
Working with attachment, body awareness, and mindfulness online
Mary uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. This helps people understand why certain interactions trigger strong reactions and how to build different ways of connecting.She also uses mindfulness practices to help people notice thoughts and feelings without getting swept away. These practices can reduce rumination and make it easier to choose a different response when stress arises.
Somatic work focuses on body sensations and how the nervous system holds stress. Simple body-based exercises and grounding techniques are taught to help regulate panic, anxiety, and overwhelm.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Mary and the person she meets with will explore goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress unfolds.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and interactive exercises. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief check-ins, reflection between sessions, and extra support during the week.
This mix of approaches and formats makes it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while still addressing stress, attachment patterns, panic, and mood symptoms.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Relationship issues
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English