About Mary
Mary Bulla is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Florida who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and life changes. She also supports people coping with trauma, parenting strains, relationship and intimacy concerns, and challenges related to chronic illness. Mary aims to meet clients where they are and work alongside them toward practical steps forward.
Her counseling style is warm and conversational. She keeps sessions flexible and adjusts methods to fit each person’s needs.
Background and approach
Clients can expect straightforward talk, gentle guidance, and options for exercises or tools to try between sessions. Mary earned a master’s degree from Nova Southeastern University and holds a Florida LMHC credential. Her background includes grief and bereavement work in hospice, community health work with children, independent practice with teens and adults, and running support groups.
She also draws on personal experience navigating a cancer diagnosis, which informs her work with chronic and terminal illness. In sessions she uses client-centered and psychodynamic ideas to understand feelings and patterns. She pairs those with solution-focused work to set small, achievable goals.
Mary also offers EMDR when appropriate as a way to address trauma symptoms. Her approach blends talking, learning new coping skills, and sometimes experiential techniques. She invites feedback and adjusts the plan when something isn’t working.
The focus stays on practical progress and on building skills that make daily life easier.
How Mary’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered work focuses on the person’s experience and priorities. In this approach the therapist listens carefully and follows what matters most to the client, helping them name goals and try small changes that feel useful. EMDR, or eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, is a technique used to address disturbing memories and trauma symptoms through guided bilateral stimulation while processing those memories.Finding the right approach often happens together. Mary will talk with a client about their goals, symptoms, and preferences and then suggest a path to try. She stays open to feedback and adjusts the plan if something isn’t helping, making decisions collaboratively rather than imposing a set method.
Online therapy makes these approaches more accessible. Video calls allow for face-to-face conversation and some experiential exercises. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between sessions or fit brief talks into a busy day. These options offer flexibility for scheduling, quieter surroundings, and different ways to engage with therapy without needing to travel.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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