About Mary
Mary Hernandez is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with five years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, depression, and compassion fatigue. Mary aims to make the first steps toward change feel possible and understandable for each person who reaches out.
She centers sessions on the client’s own story and strengths. Mary listens for what matters most, then helps set small, practical goals.
Background and approach
She uses clear, straightforward tools so conversations lead to real-life changes you can try between sessions. Her background includes supporting people through post-traumatic stress, sexual assault and abuse, and challenges tied to family of origin and immigration. She also works with concerns such as codependency, abandonment, guilt and shame, and feelings of emptiness or isolation.
Those experiences inform how she plans each person’s care. Mary emphasizes a collaborative relationship. That means she and the client decide together what to focus on and which steps to take next.
Sessions often include skill-building, pacing work to match each person’s readiness, and reviewing what is helpful outside of session. Sessions are available in English and offered through several online formats. Mary encourages anyone feeling overwhelmed by anxiety or stress to consider a short match questionnaire to begin finding a good fit.
Evidence-Informed Approaches for Online Care
Mary draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical skills and recovery from trauma. One common approach she uses teaches coping and emotion-regulation skills to reduce anxiety and manage stress. These techniques help people notice unhelpful patterns, try new responses, and build steady habits for daily life.Another approach emphasizes processing traumatic experiences in manageable steps so memories and reactions feel less overwhelming. This work aims to reduce post-traumatic symptoms and the impact of past abuse by pacing memories and strengthening current coping skills.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Mary collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, background, and readiness to change. She adjusts pacing and tools based on what the client finds most useful and tolerable.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let visual cues inform conversation and are good for deeper work. Phone sessions can require less bandwidth and suit someone who prefers voice-only contact. Live chat and messaging support shorter check-ins, homework review, and flexible touchpoints between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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