About Mary
Mary Jo Ayllon is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor with 12 years of experience. She practices from North Carolina and focuses on practical help for stress, anxiety, grief, and related concerns. She aims to create a comfortable space where people can talk through what feels heavy.
Sessions move at the client’s pace and focus on real goals the person wants to reach. Mary Jo draws on straightforward strategies to reduce worry, manage mood, and improve day-to-day functioning.
Background and approach
Her work often addresses issues around self-esteem, relationships, family problems, and workplace stress. She also supports people coping with trauma, OCD and obsessive worries, ADHD, postpartum challenges, and life transitions. Concerns about body image, guilt, shame, and multicultural stressors are also included in her clinical focus.
Mary Jo uses a mix of approaches including cognitive behavioral ideas, acceptance and commitment methods, attachment-based thinking, mindfulness, and client-centered listening. That mix helps tailor sessions to what each person needs rather than using a single fixed method. She can include faith perspectives when clients want a Biblically integrated approach, and she respects how spiritual beliefs can shape healing.
Sessions are available through video, phone, live chat, or text messaging for people based in North Carolina who prefer online care. Beginning therapy is presented as a step toward feeling less stuck and finding practical ways to manage symptoms. Mary Jo offers guided, goal-oriented support while working alongside clients as they make changes.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then take actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and major life changes because it emphasizes small, value-driven steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and changing behaviors that maintain distress. It offers concrete tools for worry, depression, OCD, and mood management. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and can be helpful when relationship trust, abandonment worries, or attachment concerns affect daily life.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they will try methods that fit the person’s needs and adjust them as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more accessible. Video calls allow visual connection for deeper interaction. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit quick updates, brief coaching, or when writing feels easier than talking. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep continuity of care across life changes.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Georgia, North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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