About Mary
Mary M. (Lindy) Peterson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with four decades of experience. She focuses on helping people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, and life changes.
Mary writes in plain terms and aims to build a respectful, compassionate working relationship from the start. She spent most of her career in school settings and also worked in a Christian counseling context. That background informs her comfort with young adult concerns, workplace stress, and life transitions.
Background and approach
Mary listens actively and gives straightforward feedback to help people see what patterns hold them back. In sessions she helps clients identify behaviors that limit growth and then practices new, more helpful responses. She tailors conversation and plans to each person's needs and goals.
Her work often addresses grief and loss, caregiver stress, and fears such as phobias and social anxiety. Mary also supports people facing health-related stress, including cancer and related caregiver strain. She pays attention to emotion around guilt, shame, relationship boundaries, and codependency.
Her aim is to help people find practical steps toward greater self-love and purpose. Therapy with Mary is paced to the individual. She emphasizes clear communication and mutual respect.
Taking that first step can feel hard, and she offers steady, experienced support along the way.
How Mary Uses Evidence-Based Techniques Online
Mary draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One approach helps people recognize unhelpful thoughts and test them against real-life evidence; this can reduce anxiety and depressive thinking by changing how a person thinks and acts. Another approach emphasizes learning new behaviors through repeated practice and feedback, which can help with avoidance, phobias, and workplace or social anxiety.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Mary works with each person to identify goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions can make regular therapy easier to fit into a busy life. Video calls let participants work face-to-face from different locations. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be good for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging offer ongoing support between sessions and work well for quick reflections or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options aim to provide flexibility while keeping the focus on practical tools and steady progress.
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- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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