About Mary
Mary Huckaby is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 20 years of experience helping adults manage anxiety and other common concerns. She focuses on practical support so people can feel steadier in day-to-day life. Mary speaks plainly and aims to make sessions easy to follow for someone juggling work and family demands.
She typically helps with stress, anxiety, mood difficulties, and relationship concerns. Trauma and abuse are also areas she addresses, including post-traumatic stress and panic symptoms.
Background and approach
Mary also supports people dealing with self-esteem, body image, guilt, shame, and feelings of isolation. Mary adapts her approach to each person. She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques chosen to match the client's needs.
Sessions blend problem-solving, emotion regulation skills, and conversation about relationship patterns and attachment issues. People who come to Mary often want concrete tools for calming anxiety, clearer ways to set boundaries, or steps to improve communication. She also guides work around abandonment, forgiveness, and life purpose when those issues are present.
Her style is direct but compassionate, with attention to what will change daily life. Mary has worked with adults for two decades in Missouri and beyond. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules.
Her goal is to help people find relief from overwhelming feelings and build routines that support emotional balance.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Mary uses a range of evidence-based therapeutic techniques and selects the most useful ones for each person. One common method focuses on teaching emotion regulation and coping skills; this helps people reduce intense anxiety and manage panic symptoms through step-by-step exercises. Another approach looks at relationship patterns and attachment issues to clarify how past hurts influence current connections and communication difficulties.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Mary will work with each person to identify goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan as progress is made. She emphasizes practical tools and clear steps so clients can see what is changing between sessions.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for busy lives. Video calls make it possible to have face-to-face conversation without travel time. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth or camera use are limiting. Live chat and text-based messaging provide brief check-ins, written exercises, and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit consistent work on anxiety, relationships, and mood into a weekly routine.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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