About Mary
Mary Keane is a licensed clinical social worker with ten years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She offers straightforward support for those feeling overwhelmed by life changes, relationship strain, grief, or low self-worth. Her approach is practical and conversational, aimed at making small steps feel doable.
Mary begins by listening to what matters most to each person. She helps clients identify patterns that get in the way and tries out concrete ways to respond differently.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on skills you can use between meetings, such as strategies for coping with strong feelings or building healthier habits. Her background as a LICSW in the District of Columbia has involved working with people facing a wide range of challenges.
She has supported those dealing with chronic illness and pain, end-of-life concerns, and the stress that follows natural or human-caused disasters. She also works with issues tied to attachment, abandonment, codependency, and family of origin struggles. Mary tailors sessions to each person’s goals and pace.
People often meet by phone, video, live chat, or text messaging when that fits their life. She encourages simple experiments between sessions so progress can be noticed in everyday moments. Anyone who is curious about starting can complete a brief questionnaire and schedule a first meeting.
Mary aims to make the work approachable and to help people build clearer direction and better coping over time.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Mary works with evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical skills and behavior changes. One common approach she uses emphasizes identifying unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and then testing small, manageable changes in daily life to reduce anxiety and stress. This helps people build clearer routines and respond differently when strong emotions arise.Another approach centers on improving emotional awareness and attachment patterns. It involves talking through relationship expectations and practicing new ways of connecting that reduce reactivity and increase trust. This can be useful for people coping with relationship strain, abandonment concerns, or family of origin issues.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Mary will talk with each person about goals, life demands, and what feels most useful. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust those choices as progress and needs change.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation for in-depth work, phone sessions can fit into a short break or require less bandwidth, and chat or messaging can be used for brief check-ins or steady support between meetings. These formats aim to make consistent care more flexible and easier to fit into daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- District of Columbia
- Languages
- English
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