About Mary
Mary Buntin is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Virginia with 40 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and major life transitions. Her work emphasizes practical steps and steady support so people feel understood and able to move forward.
Mary takes a straightforward and compassionate approach. She helps people identify personal strengths and build on them. Sessions focus on what is useful day to day, such as coping skills, self-care, and ways to manage overwhelming feelings.
Background and approach
She has particular experience with issues that come with aging and caregiving. Mary supports those facing retirement transitions, caregiver strain, chronic illness, and disability-related challenges. She also addresses isolation, compassion fatigue, guilt, shame, and struggles with self-love.
Her style is encouraging and empowering. Mary helps people set realistic goals and try small changes that add up. She talks through options with each person and adapts to what feels most helpful in the moment.
Seeking help can feel hard, and Mary acknowledges that courage. She offers steady support while people work toward clearer routines, better mood management, and more satisfying daily life.
Practical approaches for online care and life transitions
Mary uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on practical coping and improving daily functioning. One approach emphasizes identifying personal strengths and building on them to manage stress and anxiety; sessions focus on clear steps people can try between meetings. Another approach concentrates on skills for handling grief, caregiver strain, and changes related to aging by teaching emotion regulation and problem-solving strategies that reduce overwhelm and increase resilience.Finding the right way to work together is part of the process. The therapist will review a person’s needs, goals, and preferences and suggest approaches to test out. Together they will adjust methods and pace so the work feels relevant and doable for each person.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations and fuller interaction. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or for a focused check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging let people share thoughts between appointments and fit support into busy days. These options make it easier to keep consistent care while managing work, caregiving, or mobility limits.
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- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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