About Mary
Dr. Mary Jane Preece is a licensed professional counselor with two decades of experience helping people manage anxiety and stress. She works with adults facing relationship strain, life changes, low self-esteem, and the ripple effects of trauma and grief.
Her approach is straightforward and caring. She focuses on practical steps people can try between sessions. She uses client-centered methods to create a respectful space where a person’s goals guide the work.
Background and approach
Cognitive behavioral techniques are used to spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. Dialectical strategies and mindfulness tools help with intense emotions and building steady coping skills. Dr.
Preece has worked in Ohio settings that included caregiving support, career challenges, and health-related stress. That breadth has shaped a calm, problem-solving style that mixes coaching with traditional therapy. She often helps clients break big problems into small, doable steps.
Sessions commonly address parenting strains, caregiver burnout, chronic illness stress, and career transitions alongside mood and anxiety concerns. She also supports people managing attachment wounds, grief, or past abuse. The focus is on clear goals, steady skill building, and realistic plans for daily life.
Her practice uses a subscription model for sessions and offers several remote formats. People meet by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. The process begins with a short questionnaire to match needs and schedule a first appointment.
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions
Dr. Preece blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral therapy to help people change patterns that feed anxiety and stress. Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding each person's concerns and adjusting pace and goals to what feels manageable. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and tests new behaviors to reduce worry and avoidance.She also uses elements of dialectical behavior therapy to teach emotion regulation and mindfulness tools to increase present-moment awareness. DBT-informed skills are useful when emotions feel overwhelming, while mindfulness practices help with focus and grounding during stress or grief. Together these approaches give practical skills and clearer choices in daily life.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with the person to shape goals, try different strategies, and adjust based on what helps most. Sessions aim to build skills people can apply between meetings and to set realistic steps toward change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video is well suited for deeper work and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or when a flexible, on-the-go option is needed.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Ohio, Arizona
- Languages
- English
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