About Mary
Mary Newbauer, LCSW, offers calm, steady support for people facing anxiety and other sources of stress. She focuses on helping individuals cope with grief, relationship endings, life transitions, and changes that can follow aging or illness. Her approach is warm and practical, with short-term tools and space to talk things through.
She draws on 27 years of clinical experience working with people at the end of life and those caring for others.
Background and approach
That background informs how she listens and responds to people in the midst of loss or heavy responsibility. Sessions emphasize clear goals and manageable steps toward feeling better. Mary uses client-centered listening so people feel heard and understood.
She pairs that with cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thoughts and mindfulness practices to reduce stress in the moment. Solution-focused ideas help clients find small changes that build momentum. In practice she offers straightforward guidance, active listening, and gentle challenges when needed.
Conversations are paced to each person’s comfort, and work often centers on skills to handle anxiety, grieving, anger, or changes in caregiving roles. Her background includes a master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and decades of hands-on work with adults facing end-of-life issues and midlife crises. She is licensed in Wisconsin as an LCSW and works in English.
If someone thinks her way of working might fit, she welcomes an initial conversation to see if it feels right.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Mary often uses client-centered therapy, which means she listens closely and adapts to each person’s needs while offering a respectful, nonjudgmental space. This approach helps people feel understood and guides the pace of work online or by phone.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, a practical method that looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep anxiety or low mood going. CBT offers clear exercises and tools clients can use between sessions to reduce worry and change unhelpful habits.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Mary will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then adjust techniques over time. That collaborative process aims to match tools to the person’s daily life and stressors.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited or someone prefers not to be on camera, and chat or messaging can suit quick check-ins or brief, flexible support. These options make it easier to schedule appointments around work, caregiving, or health needs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Self esteem
- Self-love
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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