About Mary
Mary Lindsey Higgins is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who blends client-centered care with practical strategies. She draws on tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness to help people manage stress and anxiety. Her voice is steady and straightforward, and she aims to make the first steps feel doable.
She brings eight years of therapy experience and longer work in mental health. Mary Lindsey earned a Master of Social Work from Western Kentucky University in 2015 and holds a Kentucky LCSW.
Background and approach
That background informs how she structures sessions and sets collaborative goals with clients. In sessions she starts by listening closely to how a person describes their difficulties. Then she adapts proven techniques to fit how each person learns and processes.
That might mean skill-building from CBT, mindfulness exercises, or revisiting personal stories through narrative work. She often supports people coping with anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and addictions. She also helps with relationship strain, grief, parenting concerns, career stress, and issues around self-esteem and body image.
Her work includes mood disorders such as bipolar conditions and post-traumatic stress when people seek help. Mary Lindsey uses motivational interviewing to strengthen readiness for change and to support people through life transitions. She focuses on creating an accepting session where questions and small experiments are welcome.
If someone is unsure what they want from therapy, she can help name goals and take the next steps.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person in front of the therapist. It begins with listening and building a respectful relationship so the work fits how someone thinks and learns. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and teaches concrete tools to reduce anxiety and change unhelpful patterns. Mindfulness therapy adds simple practices that help calm attention and reduce reactivity, useful for stress and mood challenges.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods to try first, adjusting as goals and preferences become clearer. That teamwork helps tailor sessions so techniques feel useful and realistic for daily life.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule. Video calls let people work face-to-face without traveling, phone sessions need less bandwidth, live chat is good for shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options support flexibility and make it practical to keep up with regular work toward goals.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English
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