About Mary
Mary Meehan, LPC, offers 27 years of counseling experience supporting people facing stress and anxiety. She approaches therapy with calm, steady attention and practical steps people can use between sessions. Her style is warm and direct, aimed at helping clients feel understood and find tools that fit their daily life.
She works with a wide range of concerns including grief, parenting strain, relationship struggles, low self-esteem, and life changes. She also addresses trauma and abuse, eating concerns, anger, career pressures, bipolar disorder, depression, and ADHD.
Background and approach
Mary pays attention to how past losses or attachment patterns affect present choices and mood. In the therapy room she listens first, then helps set clear goals. She uses client-centered conversations to prioritize what matters most to the client.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques are used to spot unhelpful thoughts and build coping skills people can practice between sessions. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are offered to manage strong emotions and improve tolerance for distress. Narrative therapy work helps people reframe difficult life stories and reclaim agency.
Emotionally-Focused ideas support clearer communication and deeper emotional understanding. Mary has worked in Missouri most of her career and holds a Licensed Professional Counselor credential. Sessions are available in English and she accepts international clients.
Many people find her steady presence useful when navigating big changes, complicated relationships, or persistent anxiety.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting what matters to the person. It helps clarify values and goals and supports self-directed change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches concrete skills to reduce anxiety and improve mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers practical tools for managing intense emotions and improving distress tolerance and interpersonal effectiveness.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to select or combine methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That might mean starting with CBT skills and adding narrative or emotion-focused work as needed. The plan can change as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful for deeper conversations and skills practice. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth or hands-free time is needed. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for brief check-ins, homework support, and staying connected between scheduled sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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