About Mary
Mary Cox is a licensed independent social worker with 17 years of experience. She focuses on common struggles such as stress, anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem. Her approach aims to help people manage life changes and recover from compassion fatigue.
She offers straightforward support and practical tools for day-to-day coping. Mary takes a calm, compassionate stance in sessions. She helps clients recognize patterns that fuel anxiety and stress, then practices new ways to respond.
Background and approach
Conversations tend to be direct and focused on small, doable steps. She also helps people develop more self-compassion and clearer communication skills. Her background includes long experience supporting people living with chronic illness, caregiver stress, and the emotional fallout from major life events.
That experience informs how she shapes treatment plans and sets realistic goals. Mary draws on methods rooted in evidence-based therapeutic techniques to make sessions practical and goal-oriented. Typical work includes building coping strategies for panic and anxiety, addressing guilt and shame, and managing impulsivity and substance-related concerns.
She also assists people facing grief after divorce or separation and those wrestling with control or codependency issues. Sessions emphasize skills practice and steady progress over time. Mary offers multiple remote session formats so clients can choose what fits their day.
She guides clients through a clear starting process and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. Sessions are conducted in English and are provided from her Ohio practice.
Evidence-based approaches for online care
Mary uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide sessions in clear, practical ways. One common approach helps people identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns that feed anxiety and depression. This approach focuses on skills practice and short-term goals to reduce worry and improve mood.Another approach emphasizes building coping skills for stress and managing strong emotions. It includes breathing and grounding exercises, problem-solving steps, and ways to reduce impulsive reactions. These techniques are useful for panic, stress, addiction-related urges, and managing chronic health challenges.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist collaborates with each person to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. Adjustments are made as progress is tracked and priorities change.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexible access. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and skills practice. Phone calls use less bandwidth and can fit into a break at work. Live chat and messaging are helpful for brief check-ins, written reflections, or when a shorter touchpoint is needed during the week.
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What this therapist works with
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- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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