About Mary
Mary Hamm is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Tennessee. She helps people who feel overwhelmed, anxious, burned out, or weighed down by depression. Her style is direct and compassionate, aimed at practical steps people can use right away.
She works with individuals facing major life changes, parenting stress, postpartum challenges, and times when joy feels distant. Sessions focus on what feels most urgent to the person and what small changes could make daily life easier.
Background and approach
Mary uses a mix of approaches to match each person’s needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps notice and shift unhelpful thinking and behavior. Mindfulness practices support grounding and emotional regulation.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps clarify values and take meaningful action. Over 16 years she has supported people with ADHD, chronic stress, trauma, grief, and mood concerns like bipolar disorder and depression. She also addresses worries about eating, sleeping, intimacy, and relationship strains as individuals bring them up.
Her sessions emphasize collaboration and doable tools. People can expect calm guidance, concrete strategies, and gentle encouragement to test new ways of coping. The goal is steady progress toward a life that feels more connected and manageable.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Mary commonly combines Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy in online sessions. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying new behaviors, which works well over video or phone when people can practice between meetings. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to manage stress and anxiety, and these exercises can be coached in real time over video or via messaging.She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people name what matters to them and take steps toward those values. That approach is collaborative - the therapist and client decide together what to try next and adjust based on what fits the person’s life and goals.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face work and observing nonverbal cues. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging let people send updates between sessions, try brief coaching, or fit support into a work break or childcare window.
Across formats the focus is on practical tools, regular practice, and adapting techniques to a person’s daily routine so progress can continue between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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