About Mary
Mary Beth Ritchie is a licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of experience. She offers practical, down-to-earth therapy for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, or life changes. Her approach is warm and nonjudgmental, and she aims to help clients make steady progress toward goals they care about.
She prefers plain conversation over jargon. Sessions focus on what is happening now and on skills that can be used between meetings.
Background and approach
She often combines short exercises, written reflections, and talk to help people notice patterns and try new habits. Mary Beth uses a mix of approaches, including cognitive behavioral techniques, acceptance-based strategies, and client-centered work. She tailors this blend to the person in front of her, shifting methods as needs change.
She also integrates mindfulness and motivational interviewing when those fit the goal. Many clients use asynchronous messaging for check-ins and reflections, and she offers live sessions as well. Messaging gives both sides time to think through responses and can deepen the work.
Video calls and phone sessions are also options for those who prefer live contact. Mary Beth practices in Oklahoma and holds LCSW credentials in both Oklahoma and Texas. Sessions are conducted in English, and she accepts international clients.
Her style is caring, straightforward, and focused on real change.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Mary Beth commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in her online work. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments, which can help with anxiety, sleep, eating, and mood. ACT teaches people to notice difficult thoughts and feelings while taking action toward what matters, which is useful for stress, grief, and life transitions.She treats choice of approach as a collaborative process. During early sessions she will discuss goals and preferences, then try methods that seem to fit. Adjustments are normal - techniques can be changed over time to match what is proving helpful for each person.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Live video and phone sessions work well for in-depth conversations and skill practice. Shorter check-ins and asynchronous messaging let clients reflect before responding and fit therapy into busy days. These options make it easier to keep momentum and maintain contact between live sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- 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
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma, Texas
- Languages
- English
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