About Mary
Mary Mathis is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in South Carolina who helps people facing stress, anxiety, parenting strain, grief, and life changes. She aims to make beginning therapy straightforward and approachable for someone feeling overwhelmed or unsure where to start. She draws on 13 years of clinical experience.
Mary earned a BA in Individual and Family Development from Purdue University and a MA in Clinical Counseling from Columbia International University.
Background and approach
Her background includes roles as a Multisystemic (MST) therapist for HIV-positive teenagers, a school-based mental health counselor, and service as a Military and Family Life Counselor. Mary uses practical, hands-on methods in sessions. She often uses client-centered listening to understand what matters most, cognitive behavioral techniques to challenge unhelpful thoughts, and solution-focused steps to build small, achievable changes.
She also brings trauma-focused strategies when past events are affecting daily life. Sessions are conversational and goal-directed. Mary helps people identify strengths, set realistic steps, and track progress between meetings.
She also offers coaching-style support for career questions and navigating major life transitions. Her additional interests include adoption and foster care questions, caregiver stress, blended family adjustments, multicultural concerns, and financial or career stress. People seeking help with mood concerns, ADHD challenges, or compassion fatigue can work on practical skills and coping plans with her.
Mary emphasizes steady progress rather than quick fixes. She encourages clients to speak plainly about what they need and to test new ways of coping in everyday life.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Mary commonly uses client-centered work and cognitive behavioral therapy in online appointments. Client-centered work means listening closely to the person and shaping the session around their priorities, which helps when someone feels overwhelmed or unsure what to focus on. Cognitive behavioral therapy involves spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety or low mood.She also draws on solution-focused practices to set short-term, achievable goals and on motivational interviewing to build motivation for change. These approaches help with stress, parenting challenges, mood concerns, and coping after difficult events. Choosing a method is a team effort - the therapist will discuss goals, try an approach, and adjust it based on what feels helpful for the client.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for skill practice and deeper work. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a lunch break or commute. Live chat and text messaging suit quick check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing symptom tracking between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule regular work without long travel time and help maintain momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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