About Mary
Mary Katherine Garcia is a licensed professional counselor who focuses on stress, anxiety, relationships, and self-esteem. She frames therapy as a collaborative process and helps people notice their strengths. Sessions aim to make small, practical changes that feel manageable in day-to-day life.
She uses parts work to help people get curious about the different sides of themselves. That approach supports better self-understanding and clearer choices. Mary Katherine blends this with skills-based tools to handle intense emotion and upsetting thoughts.
Background and approach
Her work often draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to spot thoughts that get in the way. She also uses trauma-focused methods when past events continue to shape how someone feels. Emotion-focused ideas guide conversations about connection and attachment patterns.
Mary Katherine keeps sessions straightforward and goal-oriented. She helps people build coping strategies for grief, parenting stress, life changes, and mood struggles. Communication problems, control issues, guilt, and shame are common topics she addresses.
With nine years of clinical experience, she aims to meet people where they are and move at a pace that feels right. People leave with concrete skills and clearer next steps. Mary Katherine practices in Arizona and conducts sessions in English.
Her license is LPC in Arizona, and she combines evidence-informed methods with a warm, down-to-earth style. The focus is on practical progress and honoring each person’s journey.
How her approaches work online
Mary Katherine uses cognitive behavioral ideas to help people notice thoughts and behaviors that worsen anxiety and low mood. CBT focuses on practical exercises and small experiments to change unhelpful thinking and build healthier habits.She also draws on trauma-focused therapy to address symptoms that stem from past events. That approach looks at how memories and reactions show up now, and supports gradual steps to reduce their hold on daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. She works together with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. Treatment plans are adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video lets people see each other and work through exercises. Phone calls can be helpful when bandwidth is limited or a quieter setting is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework support, or when typing feels easier than speaking.
These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives, balance parenting or work demands, and keep continuity when schedules change. Mary Katherine uses these formats to bring evidence-informed tools into everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
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