About Mary
Mary Sanders is a licensed clinical social worker with 36 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and on improving relationship and family concerns. Her style is warm and relational and she aims to help clients use their time in therapy well.
Mary goes by Beth and centers her work on the connection between people. She helps clients identify strengths and obstacles, and teaches practical coping and communication skills.
Background and approach
She sees self-awareness as a key part of change and encourages realistic work toward goals. Her background includes extensive work with addictions and mental health concerns across many life stages. She also brings experience supporting people through grief, trauma, caregiver strain, and major life transitions.
Her practice includes attention to issues such as codependency, substance use, and blended family dynamics. Mary uses approaches that put the client at the center of sessions. She draws on emotionally focused and relationship-based methods to address intimacy and communication problems.
Mindfulness and motivational strategies are used when useful to build coping skills and motivation for change. She holds licenses in Georgia as an LCSW and also holds the CSW credential. Sessions are offered in English and she is willing to work with international clients.
Mary aims to meet people where they are, including their spiritual views, and supports a collaborative path toward clearer choices and improved daily functioning.
How relational and online approaches work together
Mary uses Client-Centered Therapy to focus on the person's experience and priorities, offering a supportive, nonjudgmental space where clients lead the conversation and choices. This approach helps people clarify goals and use their own strengths to move forward.She also uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy to address relationship and attachment concerns. EFT helps people name emotions, improve emotional connection, and change interaction patterns that cause conflict or distance.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. Mary will discuss options based on your needs, goals, and what feels most comfortable for you. Together you can try different methods and adjust the plan as progress and feedback guide the work.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for deeper relational work. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging let you check in between sessions or use brief check-ins when time is tight. These formats make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing other responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 36 years
- Licensed
- Georgia, Utah
- Languages
- English
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