About Mary
Mary Herro is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Arizona with 30 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and supports those dealing with addictions, grief, and life transitions. Mary approaches each person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion.
Mary builds straightforward treatment plans that match each person’s needs. Sessions focus on practical skills for coping with worry, managing strong emotions, and handling everyday stressors. She also helps people navigate family conflict, career concerns, and challenges around self-esteem.
Background and approach
When grief or loss is present, Mary offers steadiness and step-by-step support. For people facing substance use challenges she addresses patterns and coping strategies without harsh judgment. She describes therapy as a collaborative process where progress happens one step at a time.
Mary tailors conversations and goals to each person’s life. She meets people where they are and helps build tools they can use between sessions. Her style aims to make change feel manageable rather than overwhelming.
Over three decades of practice have shaped her practical approach to common struggles like anxiety, depression, ADHD, and relationship stress. Mary emphasizes small, achievable steps and honest conversation to help people move toward a more satisfying life.
How evidence-based techniques translate to online care
Mary uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques in ways people can apply to daily life. One approach emphasizes teaching coping skills for anxiety and stress, helping clients learn breathing, grounding, and problem-solving methods they can use between sessions. Another common focus is working on emotional regulation and behavior patterns to address depression, addiction, or relationship difficulties by identifying triggers and building alternative responses.Finding the right approach is a team effort. Mary collaborates with each person to choose techniques that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. She adjusts methods over time based on what works and what doesn’t, and she explains options in plain language so people can make informed choices.
Online therapy with Mary is offered through several formats to fit different schedules and preferences. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper discussion and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging offer flexible, ongoing contact for quick updates or brief reflections between longer sessions. These options make it easier to get consistent support while balancing work, family, and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
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