About Mary
Mary Banks is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship concerns, and low self-esteem. She speaks plainly and aims to make therapy approachable for someone feeling overwhelmed or uncertain. Sessions focus on practical steps and clearer ways to handle day-to-day challenges.
Mary draws on four years of clinical experience in Oklahoma and Texas. She supports adults working through life changes, attachment struggles, and mood-related concerns.
Background and approach
Her background includes helping people manage social anxiety, impulsivity, and the emotional fallout from separation or caregiving roles. In sessions she listens first, then helps build skills that fit each person's life. That can mean learning coping strategies, improving communication, or addressing patterns like codependency and control issues.
The work is collaborative and paced to what the client can handle. She also assists people dealing with addiction and relapse concerns, and with problems linked to guilt, shame, or feelings of emptiness. Mary pays attention to how past relationships affect current behavior and offers ways to practice healthier responses.
Practical tools are paired with supportive conversation. Clients can expect clear suggestions to try between meetings and check-ins on what’s working. The goal is better day-to-day function and more confidence managing stress and change.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Mary uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that emphasize practical skill-building and understanding how past relationships shape current reactions. One approach focuses on teaching coping skills for anxiety and stress, such as breath work, grounding, and step-by-step exposure to feared situations to reduce avoidance. Another approach looks at attachment and relationship patterns, helping people identify repeating dynamics and try new ways of communicating and setting boundaries.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Mary will talk with each person about their goals, daily routines, and what has or hasn't worked before. Together they adjust methods over time so the strategies fit the client's needs and preferences rather than forcing a single style.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls allow full conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text work well for short check-ins or when writing helps process thoughts. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and varied situations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
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