About Mary
Mary Foy is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 13 years of clinical experience in Iowa. She focuses on stress and anxiety and helps people who are facing relationship struggles, grief, depression, or life transitions. She approaches each person with respect and a practical mindset, listening first to understand the problem and what matters most to them.
Mary believes clients know their own stories and can build on existing strengths.
Background and approach
She works in a straightforward way that breaks concerns into smaller, manageable steps. Sessions typically include clear goals and simple tools people can try between meetings to ease symptoms and build confidence. Her background includes long-term work supporting people with trauma and abuse, addictions, and complex mood concerns such as bipolar disorder.
She also helps with parenting stress, sleep and eating difficulties, and work-related burnout or compassion fatigue. Those facing attachment or abandonment questions, adoption and foster care issues, or struggles with codependency will find practical, focused support.
Therapeutic approaches include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, Existential Therapy to clarify values and life choices, and Trauma-Focused Therapy for people recovering from past hurts. Mary adapts these tools to fit what the person needs rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan. Sessions are offered in English and are available to people inside and outside the United States.
Her style is calm, direct, and collaborative, aimed at helping clients make steady changes and feel more capable in daily life.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Mary uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thought patterns and try out different behaviors that can reduce anxiety and improve mood. CBT focuses on small, practical changes that people can test between sessions to see what helps.She also uses Trauma-Focused Therapy for those recovering from past harm, which involves careful, paced work to lessen the hold of painful memories and strengthen coping skills. Existential Therapy is used when people are wrestling with meaning, values, or big life decisions, helping them clarify what matters and choose actions that match those values.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Mary works collaboratively to decide which methods fit best for a person's needs, goals, and preferences. She will adjust strategies as progress is made and as the client's priorities evolve.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, giving flexibility for different situations. Video is useful for a fuller conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat or text work well for brief check-ins or when typing feels more comfortable. These options make scheduling easier and help people fit sessions into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Iowa
- Languages
- English
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