About Mary
Mary Landers, LCSW, offers practical, evidence-based support for people dealing with stress and anxiety. She writes plainly and listens closely, helping clients take small steps toward feeling more steady. Her style is calm and direct, focused on what will help in daily life.
She has twelve years of experience practicing in Texas as a licensed clinical social worker. Over that time she has worked with people facing trauma and abuse, grief and loss, depression, and concerns related to LGBT identity.
Background and approach
She also helps with problems that often come with those issues, such as attachment and abandonment worries, communication and control struggles, and body image concerns. Sessions focus on creating a nonjudgmental space where thoughts and feelings can be talked through. Mary uses straightforward, practical techniques drawn from evidence-based therapeutic approaches to reduce overwhelm and build skills.
Together clients set clear, achievable goals and practice tools they can use between meetings. Mary also supports people coping with chronic illness, caregiver stress, cancer-related concerns, aging issues, and neurodiversity like autism and Asperger syndrome. She is familiar with relationship stressors such as blended family dynamics, commitment questions, codependency, and kink or BDSM related concerns.
Her approach aims to empower clients to make changes at their own pace. Conversations are guided by the client’s goals and Mary’s practical experience, with a focus on small, sustainable steps toward better day-to-day functioning.
Evidence-based approaches for online anxiety care
Mary draws on clear, evidence-based techniques that focus on changing unhelpful patterns and building coping skills. One common approach she uses helps people identify and shift thinking patterns that increase anxiety and stress; this involves noticing anxious thoughts, testing them against reality, and practicing alternative responses to reduce worry. Another approach centers on skill-building for emotional regulation and grounding after trauma or during grief; clients practice breathing, grounding, and step-by-step exposure to reduce avoidance and regain control.Finding the right mix of techniques is a collaborative process. Mary works with each person to decide which approaches match their goals, pace, and comfort level. She adjusts methods over time based on progress and feedback so the work stays practical and relevant.
Online sessions offer flexibility and make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed, and live chat or text-based messaging can support shorter exchanges, homework check-ins, or when someone prefers written communication. These formats let clients practice skills between sessions and maintain regular contact with a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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