About Mary
Mary Cole is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Georgia with 15 years of clinical experience. She creates a warm, interactive space where people can talk through worry, low self-worth, and past hurt. Her manner is compassionate and straightforward, and she focuses on practical steps people can use between sessions.
Mary blends structured tools with a client-centered style. She helps people learn emotional regulation skills to manage intense feelings and mood swings.
Background and approach
She also works on reshaping relationship patterns and strengthening boundaries to reduce people-pleasing and improve connection. Anxiety is a common concern she addresses, including social anxiety, panic attacks, and seasonal mood shifts. Mary uses mindfulness and grounding techniques to calm the body and steady attention.
She also employs cognitive behavioral approaches to challenge unhelpful thoughts and build coping skills. Her work often involves exploring attachment patterns and issues like codependency, avoidant tendencies, and communication problems. She supports people processing grief, compassion fatigue, and changes at work or in life direction.
Conversations move between self-exploration and concrete strategies that fit everyday life. Sessions are collaborative and goal-focused. Mary guides clients in finding values, making small behavioral changes, and practicing new ways of relating.
Her aim is for people to leave feeling more empowered, aware, and able to handle stressful moments with greater confidence.
How ACT, CBT and Client-Centered Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to notice thoughts and feelings without fighting them and to focus on actions that match their values. It can help with anxiety, avoidance, and finding direction when life feels stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thinking patterns influence feelings and behavior and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors, which is useful for panic, social anxiety, and mood challenges. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship where the therapist listens deeply and follows the client's pace to foster insight and self-worth.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. Mary will work together with each person to decide which methods fit best based on goals, needs, and preferences. She often combines techniques and checks in regularly to see what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people work face-to-face when interaction matters. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text messaging make shorter check-ins and ongoing support possible between appointments. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and different day-to-day needs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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