About Mary
Mary Johnston is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Tennessee. She brings ten years of counseling experience and focuses on helping people facing stress and anxiety. Her approach is straightforward and aimed at practical change.
Mary has worked across a range of treatment settings and with adults and adolescents in both individual and group formats. She has substantial experience addressing substance use concerns, depression, trauma and post-traumatic stress, and related issues such as anger, self-esteem, and parenting strain.
Background and approach
In sessions she emphasizes a calm, nonjudgmental stance. She listens first, then helps people identify what matters to them. Goals are set together, and progress is tracked in simple steps.
Her work uses Client-Centered methods to build rapport and trust, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and change patterns, and Solution-Focused techniques to find small, effective next steps. These approaches are applied to concerns like addiction, mood difficulties, relationship strain, and blended family challenges. Mary explains therapeutic tools in plain language so people can try them between sessions.
She supports those coping with guilt, shame, ADHD, bipolar symptoms, and the stresses that come from life transitions. Her aim is to make therapy usable and relevant to everyday life.
How Mary’s approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building trust. Online sessions let the therapist and client talk through concerns at a steady pace, helping people feel understood and heard even when they are not in the same room.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. In remote sessions Mary can teach practical CBT skills like tracking thought patterns, testing assumptions, and trying small behavioral experiments between sessions.
Solution-Focused Therapy emphasizes quick, achievable steps. That approach works well online because it centers on setting clear short-term goals and checking progress from week to week.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. Mary works collaboratively to choose methods that match a person’s needs, goals, and preferences. She will review what helps and adjust the plan as work proceeds.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for full conversations and skill practice. Phone can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging let people check in between sessions or have shorter focused exchanges. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, school, and family responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Guilt and shame
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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